Check Out This Amazing Sandhill Cranes and Find Out Why They Are So Important

Learn about these birds' migratory habits and meet Garrett and Allie, two residents of the Maryland Zoo's aviary.

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00:10We have two sandhill cranes here in the Marsh Aviary

00:12in the Maryland Zoo. We've got Garrett

00:13and Allie. Garrett's been here for about

00:16two years right now and he is a little over

00:18two years old right now. Allie is about

00:20seven and she's been here for about a month.

00:24Sandhill cranes are found in

00:26most of the United States. Depending on the time of the

00:28year they're in different parts of the country. So around

00:30the winter time they're found in the southern United States

00:32like southern California, Florida and Texas.

00:34Around the summer they head up to the northern

00:36United States, Canada and Alaska and

00:38some of them are actually found in the Arctic.

00:44The training that you guys are looking at today

00:46is called station training. So every

00:48animal that we have here in the Maryland Zoo they have a different

00:50system of how we make sure that they're very very healthy

00:52and for all of our birds here in the aviary

00:54we like to make sure that they're weighing very well

00:56every single month so that their weight isn't getting too heavy

00:58or too light.

01:00It's not just the enrichment we put out for them, it's also

01:02the entire exhibit space that's an opportunity for

01:04them to do what they like to do in the wild.

01:06And so it's a really great place for them.

01:08Thank you.

01:10Thank you.