With 115,000 sandhill cranes already here, and over 600,000 more expected, the Crane Trust and Rowe Sanctuary have launched programs, blind tours and speakers from now into April.
The North Platte River is the perfect place to view the cranes as they roost for the night, or as they wake up and take off for another day 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.Brown ...
Every year, Nebraska’s Platte River becomes a corridor of motion and sound as sandhill cranes arrive from the south. By mid- to late February 2026, the first birds are likely to be circling low over ...
Sandhill crane migration has made its annual return to central Nebraska. With numbers usually peaking at around 500,000 ...
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 ...
The sandhill cranes are here, but visitors may have a tough time spotting them along the Platte River Valley between Grand Island and Kearney. "We're hearing and seeing a few," said Paul Tebbel, ...
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 ...
LINCOLN, Neb. – Now is the time to start planning a Platte River trip to experience the annual sandhill crane migration. Large numbers of sandhill cranes and waterfowl have begun arriving in the state ...
A record number of sandhill cranes gathered in Nebraska in mid-March during their annual spring migration. Matt Urbanski / Crane Trust Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking ...
Nature served us a feast on a riverine platter — a Platte banquet for the senses. As they have for millennia in this central flyway, the clucking, screeching, gurgling sandhill cranes returned last ...
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