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Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks September to October · Cranes · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis)
Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Sandhill Crane: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Sandhill Crane has been recorded in 9 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in September to October.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TM34Suffolk, England572011unverified
NK05Aberdeenshire, Scotland142011unverified
TM45Suffolk, England42011unverified
NK06Aberdeenshire, Scotland22011unverified
NZ37North Tyneside, England12011unverified
TM58Suffolk, England12011unverified
NZ38Northumberland, England12011unverified
ND48Orkney Islands, Scotland132009unverified
ND49Orkney Islands, Scotland62009unverified

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