Florida Sandhill Crane — The Year-Round Resident That's Not the Whooping Crane You Drove Out to See

Florida has its own four-foot, gar-oo-ing, year-round sandhill crane — about 5,000 of them on the prairies, pastures, and golf courses of the central peninsula. Joined every winter by 25,000 migratory cousins. Here's where to find them, how to tell them from a whooper, and what their courtship dance looks like.