Listen to the sandhill crane
Tip: press play to see the sound's live frequency spectrum in blue over the waveform.
About the sandhill crane
The sandhill crane is a bird in the family Gruidae (order Gruiformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 2.1 m.
What does the sandhill crane sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as flight call and call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
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.
Related birds in the genus Grus
Frequently asked questions
What does a sandhill crane sound like?
You can hear 3 recordings of the sandhill crane on this page, including its flight call and call. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the sandhill crane endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the sandhill crane as “least concern”.
What family does the sandhill crane belong to?
The sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) belongs to the family Gruidae in the order Gruiformes.
Sources & credits
- Flight call · Sherburne NWR, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Flight call · Sherburne NWR, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q503804 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Sandhill crane – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by http://www.birdphotos.com – CC BY 3.0