Other Names: little blue crane
Length: 25-29 in.
Wingspan: about 41 in.
Weight: to about 14 oz.
Age: one banded in wild found after 7 yrs.
Voice: usually silent but occasionally utters low clucking or croaking sounds; quarreling sounds resemble screams of parrots
Food: slow, methodical manner of feeding; seldom feeds in salt water; fish, frogs, snakes insects and spiders; can live solely on grasshoppers and insects of grasslands.