Jenn Truman spotted a baby sandhill crane in her yard eating worms, and it was adorable. The little guy was chomping worms with a healthy appetite. If you turn the volume way up, you can hear the baby crane squeaking as it walks in this video. Babies can leave the nest within eight hours of hatching, and parents immediately begin teaching them to find food.
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It did not take Jenn long to name this baby sandhill crane Kenny, although we aren’t sure of its gender. Jenn recorded Kenny’s growth during the first couple of weeks of his life. From the first video on March 9th, she did a size comparison on March 21st, and the difference is impressive.
This crane family lives in the Tampa Bay—St. Petersburg area of Florida. You don’t often see the progression of growth. Kenny has gone from barely visible in the tall grass by the swamp…
To get his feathers and be almost as tall as his parents.
Jenn did a great job recording Kenny’s first couple of months. Kenny will stay with his parents for the first nine to ten months of his life. While some sandhill cranes begin breeding at two years old, others may wait as long as seven years. They mate for life and can live more than two decades. The oldest sandhill crane on record was more than 37 years old. He was originally banded in Florida in 1982 and was located again in Wisconsin in 2019.
If you can’t get enough of Kenny, the baby sandhill crane, give Jenn a follow on TikTok. She has several videos of other Florida wildlife from her neighborhood.
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