Just The Two Of Us

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Just The Two Of Us

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Norman Johnson

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Photograph - Photography

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This pair of sand hill cranes were walking in a pasture in eastern Hillsborough County, Florida. The sandhill crane (antigone canadensis) can be found from northern Canada across to Alaska and eastern Siberia and a far south as Mexico, the southern United States and Cuba. There are seen rarely in China, Korea and Japan, and very rarely in Europe. There are three non-migratry populations: Mississippi, Florida, and Cuba and six migratory populations: eastern flyway, mid-continent flyway, rocky mountain flyway, lower Colorado River flyway, central valley flyway, and the Pacific flyway. They migrate from their breeding gounds in the north during the warmer months to the south during winter. you will see them in open grasslands, meadows, seed fields, and shallow fresh water marshes.

Sandhill cranes are large heaby bodied birds with long necks and legs. They stand up to four feet tall and have a wingspan from between five feet five inches and seven feet six inches. They have a long dark pointed bill, black legs and a short drooping tail. The body is slate gray with rusty undertones on the belly, white cheeks, and a red forehead. The chicks are yellow with rusty orange accents. Great soaring birds, they hold their necks straight in from of them and trail their legs behind. They can live up to 35 years in the wild and form flocks of over 10,000 birds during migration.

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March 29th, 2014

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