After more than 1,500 of the lanky birds died in Indiana, wildlife biologists in Nebraska were on high alert for the ...

As dawn broke in the eastern sky, it was -5 degrees on a crystal clear February morning at Bosque del Apache National ...

Arrivals and departures are staggered over several weeks, but at peak stopover, it's one of the great sights of natural ...

Long legs drifting below a pair of giant-winged birds, like silken threads caught in a gentle breeze, glide overhead. Their timeless journey celebrating spring’s arrival. I listen for an ancient avian ...

Today, sixty years later, I am excited to have once again visited central Nebraska in March for the sandhill crane migration.

A flock of Sandhill Cranes flies over Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska, on March 21, 2025. (© Leesa Goodson via Courthouse News) GIBBON, Neb. (CN) — Before dawn on a recent Friday, thousands of ...

A KETV producer recently went to central Nebraska to see the sandhill crane migration.Matt Brown shared video of his experience in Gibbon at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary ...

To Forsberg, the sandhill crane is the ambassador of the plains. Some 70,000 crane watchers flock to the Platte annually ... groups start flying in from every direction and floating down on ...

The Crane Trust, a non profit preserving the crane’s habitat, offers guided riverfront tours for visitors to see the impressive flock ... most popular crane, the Sandhill Crane, and the ...

The Eastern Population of sandhill cranes was estimated at 107,140 in fall 2022, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The migratory flock of endangered whooping cranes that mostly ...