Common Crane - Kansas

Michael Andersen, Peter Hosner, and Hannah Owens observed a Common Crane in flight, and then on the ground, for 25 minutes in the late afternoon of 23 March at the Big Salt Marsh in Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, Stafford County, Kansas.  The bird was with a flock of about 200 Sandhill Cranes and was first observed from the western section of the wildlife drive.  Quivira NWR is near Great Bend, Kansas.

The crane flock, including the Common, moved 1-1.5 miles southwest of the wildlife drive at the end of the day.  For more information on this sighting try: www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/KANS.html#1206336078.

Historic information on Common Crane records for North America can be found in the Common Crane - Nebraska, March 10th, posting on these pages.

Bill Maynard
Editor - Winging It