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 ...
Every year, over one million cranes roost in the Central Platte River Valley in Nebraska during their spring migration. The Crane Trust, a non profit preserving the crane’s habitat, offers guided ...
She explained that when sandhill cranes first arrive in the Platte Valley, they're anxious to leave the river in the mornings and get to the fields to feed. By late March, they will have put on weight ...
ALDA - "About a dozen people, on a foot bridge crossing the Platte River, looked intensely Sunday evening, as the sun was slowly setting, at a recently grazed pasture filling with thousands of ...
The warm southern breeze that blows into Nebraska this time of year not only brings the promise of spring but also thousands of migrating birds. One of the grandest migrations still intact in North ...
A small flock of sandhill cranes arrived on the Platte River last weekend, signaling the start of one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles: the annual spring migration of more than half a ...
They're Arizona's original snowbirds, the sandhill cranes that descend on the wetlands of southern Arizona every fall.
Local birders flock to wetland lookout points just around this time of year, when the bird makes its way to the California ...