the little brown crane, Grus canadensis.
See also: turkey
- 1930  The Sandhill Crane, improperly called Wild Turkey on the prairies, is to-day seldom seen,though a few years ago its hoarse trumpeting was a familiar sound overhead during the migration period.
- 1963  [We have] seen the wild turkeys leave the cultivated and . . . drouthÂ-stricken prairies. . . .