Minnesota Project
Delineating sandhill crane populations in Minnesota
May 2014 - June 2017
Personnel
- DAVID ANDERSEN, Co-Principal Investigator
- John Fieberg, Co-Principal Investigator
- DAVID Wolfson, Student / Post Doc
Participating Agencies
- Division of Migratory Birds
- State of Minnesota as recommended by the Legislative-Citizens Commission on Natural Resources
Portions of both he Mid-Continent and Eastern Populations of sandhill cranes breed in Minnesota, but how birds from each population are distributed is not well documented. This project is designed to better understand sandhill crane distribution in Minnesota.
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Wolfson, D.W., J.R. Fieberg, and D.E. Andersen. 2020. Juvenile sandhill cranes exhibit wider ranging and more exploratory movements than adults during the breeding season. Ibis 162:556-562 DOI:10.1111/ibi.12786. | October 2020 |
| Wolfson, D., J. Fieberg, J. Lawrence, T. Cooper, and D.E. Andersen. 2017. Range overlap between Mid-Continent and Eastern sandhill cranes revealed by GPS-tracking. Wildlife Society Bulletin 41:489-498. DOI:10.1002/wsb.799. | Download | October 2017 |
| Theses and Dissertations | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Wolfson, D.W. 2018. Migratory ecology and movement patterns of Mid-Continent and Eastern sandhill cranes. M.S. thesis, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. | June 2018 |