Sandhill Cranes

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Sandhill Cranes

• Raina, Naja, Makayla, Lauren
• Mrs. Nagelhouts Third Grade Class
• Spring 2009

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Table of Contents

• Cranes Food.1
• Look At Those Eggs..2
• Sandhill Crane Habitat..3
• Sandhill Crane Physical
• Characteristics.4

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Cranes Want Some Food.

• How do Sand Hill Cranes eat? They eat with their
  beaks. You may see them eating corn in a field.
  They eat fish, frogs, and insects.

• The Sandhill Cranes eat green plants.

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Hey! Look At Those Cranes Eggs.

• Look at these babies! Two eggs are laid at a
  time. The babies follow their parents soon after
  hatching. They fly in about 70 days and stay
  with their parents for nearly a year

Sand Hills nest all alone on the ground near
water. The Cranes use pieces of plants to build
their nests..
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Sandhill Cranes Habitats

• Cranes make their homes in grasslands and also
  in wetlands and meadow habitats. They have homes
  so they can hide from their predators. Did you
  know that when Sandhill Cranes migrate, they go
  in big groups?

• A Sandhill Crane next to water.

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HEY COME ON UP HERE!

• Did you know Sandhill Cranes are featherless on
  there fore -heads. The red on the top of their
  head is their skin. Sandhill Cranes have legs as
  long as a first and second graders legs.
  Something else, Sandhill cranes are as tall as a
  first and second grader. These animals are gray
  with white feathers on their backs.

• Sand Hill cranes have a wing span of 79 inches.

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Glossary

• Featherless-Without feathers.
• Habitat-Where animals live and grow up.
• Hatch-To break free from an egg.
• Migrate-To move from one area (region) to another
  during a particular time of the year.
• Predator-An animal that lives by hunting other
  animals.

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Bibliography

• Many of the facts and pictures for this digital
  book were found on the following web sites
• kids.yahoo.com/animals, animaldiversity.ummz.umich
  .edu, www.nationalgeographic.com/animals,
  http//www.naturalia.org/, http//library.thinkque
  st.org/11234/index.html