After more than 1,500 of the lanky birds died in Indiana, wildlife biologists in Nebraska were on high alert for the virus—but so far, the visiting birds seem happy and healthy ...

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

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.

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

Jeff Getz's regular trip to see the massive migration of sandhill cranes in Nebraska, which resulted in seeing whooping cranes, leads the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Ohio Division of Wildlife is accepting volunteers to help with the annual sandhill crane count, which takes place this ...

The Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition has announced the results of the 2025 First Crane Sighting Contest. The coalition ...

Bird flu aside, Nebraska biologists have another reason to celebrate: During their weekly aerial crane survey on March 17, the fifth week of the migration, they counted roughly 736,000 sandhill ...