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The cranes as a family consume a wide range of food, ranging from animal to plant matter.

When feeding on land they consume seeds, leaves, nuts and acorns, berries, fruit, insects, worms, snails, small reptiles, mammals and birds.

In wetlands roots, rhizomes, tubers and other parts of emergent plants, other molluscs, small fish and amphibians are also consumed as well.

The exact composition of the diet varies by location, season and availability.

Within the wide range of items consumed there are some patterns ; the shorter-billed species usually feed in drier uplands while the longer-billed species feed in wetlands.