Two sandhill cranes (
Grus canadensis) have been making their summer home at Aldo Leopold Nature Center for several years now. While they have not been successful breeding lately, these two are representative of a very monogamous species that returns to the same breeding ground year after year. Sandhills are one of two crane species in North America, and with many thousands of breeding birds they are much more stable than the whooping crane, which only has a few hundred individuals and no breeding pairs in the United States. Sandhills announce their arrival by echoing a primordial sounding bugle call back and forth. They look and feel like dinosaurs and I'm glad they're back in Wisconsin.
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