Sandhill cranes
28.427056°N 82.330289°W

Image of sandhill cranes taken with a telephoto lens. 8/26/1012 11:27:00 AM

Grus canadensis

Male and female with male offspring.

2 females and a male

All are grayish

Adults are about 2 pounds, and offspring is about 1.5 pounds

83 degrees F at 1 atm a bit overcast

Sandhill cranes

The Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird references habitat like that at the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills in the American Midwest. This is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the Lesser Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhill Crane