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 ...

Salt Plains Refuge hosts Sandhill and Whooping Crane migration with free guided walks and prime viewing spots in Jet, Oklahoma.

Neolithic peoples in Turkey in 6500 B.C. imitated the dances of cranes as part of marriage rituals. Dance is one thing cranes are credited by many societies with giving us. Another is language, ...

There is a heightened alert as the great sandhill crane migration begins. An estimated million cranes will converge on central Nebraska as they make their annual trek north to nest for the summer.

Some cranes stop along the Platte late each autumn during their return migration from northern breeding grounds to winter habitat along the Gulf Coast and other southern places. Skaggs said 10 times ...

Listen to the predawn sounds of the sandhill cranes roosting on the Platte River in Nebraska. First, a murmur. Then wild chatter. And finally, takeoff! It was a spring of science, magic and milestones ...

Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu, known ...

MILWAUKEE — An effort started a decade ago to return the whooping crane to its original numbers in eastern North America seemed outlandish. Workers in Wisconsin would don crane-like costumes to raise ...

ALERT AS THE GREAT SANDHILL CRANE MIGRATION BEGINS. ROUGHLY 1 MILLION CRANES WILL CONVERGE ON CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY NORTH TO NEST FOR THE SUMMER. BUT IN INDIANA, THE BIRD FLU HAS ...