google the dish " sex in the pan" to cook those legs of sandhills and swans
might not come up in the first most viewed response

You can hunt them in Texas, 3 a day limit

Shoot a bunch every year and the young ones are tender and taste like beef to me but not as tender as rib eye but I will eat them and enjoy them more than waterfowl save speckle belly geese. Not dark meat cooked up looks and taste like beef mix it with some beef suet and guarantee it taste like beef burger. I do think a lot of wild game needs to be handled and cooked right. Any bird you shoot that is gut shot and not cleaned and cooked right is not going to be great eating.

I've never eaten one, but a good buddy grew up around some of the last market hunters in central CA. They said a crane would go for 5 times the price of a specklebelly, which was twive the price of a mallard or pintail. Somebody must have liked them.

We have a big migration through our part of France every year but no season. I love listening to them fly over at night.

Pete

Noisy birds

Pete, are those cranes you have there the Common Crane?

Yes. They are the Common Crane, also called the Grue Cendree which translates to the ashy crane.

Pete