Sound Gallery - Sandhill Crane

Sandhill cranes stop at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado during migration.

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• Sandhill Cranes

  
  

  Sound recording of sandhill crane, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska.

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  Audio Transcript

  The squeaking, trilling sounds of sandhill crane calls.

Spectrogram of sandhill crane. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram visualizes cranes' mid-pitched squeaking, honking calls

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