Each spring, hundreds of thousands of cranes converge in Nebraska. The phenomenon draws in artists, conservationists and ...

Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking to central Nebraska during their annual migration—and so far, the leggy birds appear to be unaffected by the highly contagious bird flu ...

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

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 ...

Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste ...

The Audubon Center said about 700,000 cranes were in the area last weekend and about 300,000 will be in the area this weekend ...

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

Jeff Getz's regular trip to see the massive migration of sandhill cranes in Nebraska, which resulted in seeing whooping ...

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 ...

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