Possible Evidence of Fish-Eating by a Lesser Sandhill Crane from the Central Platte Valley, Nebraska

Authors

Myra Mergler Niemeier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paul E. Niemeier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

6-1982

Citation

Niemeier & Neimeier, "Possible Evidence of Fish-Eating by a Lesser Sandhill Crane from the Central Platte Valley, Nebraska," from Nebraska Bird Review (June 1982) 50(2).

Comments

Copyright 1982, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union. Used by permission.

Abstract

Centrarchid fish scales, probably those of the Green Sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus), were found in the crop of a Lesser Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis canadensis) from the Central Platte Valley, Nebraska, in March, 1976. Scales were primarily from age class II fish. Fish total length was estimated at 100.60 mm.