“…For most bird species, resource selection varies seasonally on the basis of shifts in habitat availability and quality, behavior, and nutritional needs to support energetically costly behaviors (e.g., reproduction, molting, or migration;Cody 1985;McLoughlin et al 2010;Conring 2016). Resource use and selection studies of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) have mainly been conducted in staging areas such as the Platte River in Nebraska, overwintering areas such as the Texas Southern High Plains, Texas Coast, Southern California, and Arizona, or on breeding ranges in Oregon and the Arctic (Krapu et al 1984;Iverson et al 1985;Norling et al 1992;Baker et al 1995;Littlefield 1995;Conring 2016). However, little research has been conducted on greater sandhill cranes (A. c. tabida; hereafter crane[s]), particularly on their summer areas in the Intermountain West (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) (Tacha et al 1992;August 2011;Collins et al 2015).…”