WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Grus canadensis | Sandhill Crane 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Sandhill cranes migrate from the northern reaches of Canada's Northwest
Territories south to Mexico.  The distribution of each subspecies is
listed below [15]:

G. c. ssp. pulla - Jackson County, Mississippi
G. c. ssp. nesiotes - western Cuba and the Isle of Pines, Cuba
G. c. ssp. pratensis - Florida and southern Georgia
G. c. ssp. canadensis - nests in Alaska, Siberia, northern Canada;
                        winters in California, Texas, New Mexico,
                        and Mexico
G. c. ssp. rowani - nests in central and western Canada; winters in
                    Texas, Oklahoma, eatern New Mexico, and possibly
                    Mexico
G. c. ssp. tabida - nests in Manitoba, Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin,
                    Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Nevada,
                    Oregon, Colorado, northern California; winters in
                    Arizona, California, New Mexico, Mexico, Texas,
                    Florida


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
CA
    
CO
    
FL
    
GA
    
ID
    
IN
    
KS


    
MI
    
MN
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NM
    
ND
    
OK
    
OR
    
SD


    
TX
    
UT
    
WA
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NT
    
ON
    
SK
    
YK






    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K048  California steppe
   K049  Tule marshes
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K083  Cedar glades
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K105  Mangrove
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K116  Subtropical pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    16  Aspen
    38  Tamarack
    63  Cottonwood
    70  Longleaf pine
    71  Longleaf pine - scrub oak
    75  Shortleaf pine
    76  Shortleaf pine - oak
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    83  Longleaf pine - slash pine
    84  Slash pine
    74  Cabbage palmetto
    87  Sweet gum - yellow-poplar
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   104  Sweetbay - swamp tupelo - redbay
   107  White spruce
   111  South Florida slash pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
In the northern part of its range, sandhill cranes inhabit sedge (Carex
spp.) meadows with scattered spruce (Picea spp.), dwarf birch (Betula
pumila), and tamarack (Larix spp.).  Other wetland communities are
dominated by bulrush (Scirpus spp.), cattail (Typha spp.), rush (Juncus
spp.), sphagnum moss (Sphagnum spp.), and leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne
calyculata) [11,7].  In the South, plant communities are dominated by
water lily (Nymphaea odorata), pipewort (Eriocaulon compressum),
broomsedge (Andropogon virginicus), and hurrah bush (Lyonia lucida) [1].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Grus canadensis | Sandhill Crane