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Sandhill Crane

Grus canadensis

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 7 of 64 parishes and 7 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
7 of 64 parishes
Habitats
7

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
7 of 64 parishes
Habitats
7
Habitat models
Year-round

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Louisiana 7

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 7

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

Year-roundUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

Year-roundSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Year-round

Swamps

The Land of Evangeline
Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Southern Coastal Plain Seepage Swamp and Baygall; Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Cypress DomeJoseph Rusling Meeker, The Land of Evangeline (1874): moss-hung trees over a still bayou in Louisiana swamp forest. Regional view: the painting does not name the exact site. Louisiana bayou country (Meeker, The Land of Evangeline, 1874)The Land of Evangeline, Joseph Rusling Meeker, 1874. Public domain. Source record.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Fresh)

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.

Year-roundOnly within 1,000 m of water.Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

Year-roundBeside its main habitat.Open Water (Brackish/Salt)
Other habitats in its models (25)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana. Those recorded in Louisiana first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (14)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Wet Pine Savanna and Flatwoods Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Pondshore Year-round.
  • Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Year-round.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Year-round.
  • Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Year-round.
  • Florida Dry Prairie Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Year-round.
  • South Florida Bayhead Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • South Florida Dwarf Cypress Savanna Year-round.
  • South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Year-round.
  • South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Year-round.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Hydric Hammock Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp Year-round, beside its main habitat.
Land cover and other classes (11)
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Nonriverine Swamp and Wet Hardwood Forest - Taxodium/Nyssa Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Year-round.
  • Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Year-round, only within 1,000 m of water.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Bay/Gum Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Clethra Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Nupea Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Pine Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Southern Coastal Plain Nonriverine Basin Swamp - Okefenokee Taxodium Modifier Year-round, beside its main habitat.
  • Unconsolidated Shore Year-round.
  • Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Year-round.

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 7 of 64 parishes.

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 125

Plant genera in its diet records (20)
  • Triticum Seeds and leaves. 11 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Zea Seeds. 11 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Cyperus Roots. 10 diet records. 32 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sorghum Seeds. 10 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Quercus Fruit. 6 diet records. 31 native plants in Louisiana
  • Medicago Leaves. 4 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Hordeum Seeds. 3 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Alophia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Callisia 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Eleocharis Seeds. 2 diet records. 35 native plants in Louisiana
  • Equisetum 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Lupinus Seeds. 2 diet records. 2 native plants in Louisiana
  • Nymphaea 2 diet records. 3 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oryza Seeds. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Oxalis 2 diet records. 5 native plants in Louisiana
  • Phleum Roots. 2 diet records. 0 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sagittaria 2 diet records. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Sparganium Seeds. 2 diet records. 1 native plant in Louisiana
  • Linum 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Louisiana
  • Melilotus Leaves. 1 diet record. 0 native plants in Louisiana

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Birds 139

Plants 84

All of coastal dunes and beaches in Louisiana

Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground

Birds 153

Plants 958

All of roadsides, fields and disturbed ground in Louisiana

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Birds 179

Plants 20

All of disturbed and introduced wetlands in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources