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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn stalks and shallow water searching for corn, berries, ...

Upon entering Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, my eyes were drawn to the scattering of gray feathers across the ground like a dusting of snow. This was a sure sign of the presence of ...

Michigan's largest birds are preparing to head south for the winter, but before they go, they're gathering in fields and marshes across the state. In celebration of the annual gathering and migration, ...

DECATUR, Ala. — In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn stalks and shallow water searching for corn, berries, seeds ...

Sandhill cranes beginning migration north on Feb. 3 from Zionsville, Indiana. Sandhill cranes are gathering in large migratory flocks in early February and beginning their movements north to Wisconsin ...

Tens of thousands of sandhill cranes return to southern Arizona each fall, part of a migration that's been going on for thousands of years. Sandhill cranes are thought to be the oldest living bird ...

Migrating sandhill cranes along the Platte River at sunset in Kearney, Nebraska. When people think of epic migrations, they often picture Africa’s wildebeests thundering across the Serengeti. But one ...

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 ...