(upbeat music) - [Anne Lacy] Distinction of the Sandhill Crane is that red head on the top, that's bright red skin, so that's not feathers, that's .

But also their plumage, you can tell in that picture.

Sandhills are naturally gray, and you can only see that gray plumage on their neck.

The rest of the bird is red.

So that tells me that might be a breeding bird.

Breeding birds tend to paint themselves with mud.

My name is Anne Lacy, and I am the senior manager for the North America Programs at the International Crane Foun.

And we are based here in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Our world headquarters.

I happen to work in the North America program on the only two species of crane that exist in North America.

The Sandhill Crane, which is the most abundant.

And the Whooping Crane, which is the rarest of the crane species in the wor.

You don't often find cranes in forested areas.

But with those pine trees in the you can see how open it is, and they have a good sight line, so they can see predators comin.

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