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title: "Sandhill Crane"
description: "Antigone canadensis — Vogels. The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/sandhill-crane
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sandhill Crane

> Antigone canadensis — Vogels. The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia.

- Scientific name: *Antigone canadensis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden), `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 85094
- Wikidata: [Q28114133](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28114133)
- iNaturalist taxon: [508048](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/508048)

## Names

- en: Sandhill Crane
- de: Kanadakranich
- es: Grulla gris
- fr: Grue du Canada

## Countries with the most observations

US (67155), CA (12071), MX (481), RU (151), JP (54), KR (16), DK (15), DE (13), CR (12), CN (7), TW (4), FI (3)

## Summary

The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to its habitat, such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water. The central Platte River Valley in Nebraska is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the lesser sandhill crane (A. c. canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhill_crane

## Photo

![Sandhill Crane](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sandhill-crane/medium.jpg)

Photo: Cathy Perkins · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116112439

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sandhill-crane?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).