Have you ever heard of a Grus Canadensis, bet you haven’t in this passage am going to be telling about the Grus Canadensis and their characteristics and I'm going to be telling you about their habitat/range, population, diet/feeding habits, and also there predators. The Sandhill crane is a  really mindless bird.

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The Grus Canadensis large male may range up to 4.57kg , the average female may range up to a good 4.02kg the females and males range up to 3ft to 3 1/2ft tall. They don’t have varieties of coloration the have basic colors grey and red there face is often more pale  than the  rest of their body; in addition, the adaptations of an sandhill crane is they really like to be in open grass, wet meadows,  freshwater they have to have freshwater, marshes or bogs, they may live in the savannah.The characteristics of the grus canadensis  wingspan is 40 to 48 in (100-120cm)wingspan of the grus is 5-6ft. (2-2.33). 

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The Sandhill crane are birds that primarily like open freshwater grassy areas but the subspecies range from bogs, shallow artic valleys, sedge meadows, and they may us Savannahs, and cultivated lands. Sandhill cranes occur at highest density there habitat is adjacent to short vegetation and uplands.

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Grus canadensis population is declining slowly, they are trying to make a comeback. The Grus Canadensis has a population of 650,000, though the Sandhill Crane is not considered threatened as a species, the three southernmost subspecies are quite rare. While the migratory birds could at least choose secure breeding habitat, the resident populations could not, and many subpopulations were destroyed by hunting or habitat change. However, initially the Greater Sandhill crane proper suffered most from persecution, by 1940 probably fewer than 1,000 birds remained.

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 All cranes are omnivorous. Sandhill cranes are generalist and feed on a wide variety of plants, grains and small vertebrates, and invertebrates such as insects. They find there food in uplands and shallow wetlands; like most cranes the chicks are flightless primarily on a diet of insects or other protein filled foods during the chicks early stages they grow rapidly. Sandhill cranes adept by probing the ground.

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Grus Canadensis are really awesome birds. They are mindless birds they react to things in a totally different way from other birds. The Grus Canadensis does not like to fly unless the need to.

 

Author: Jaalen R 

Published: 04/2014

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Bibliography:

Wikipedia,December13,2013 https://www.wikipedia.org/