A staggering share of all sandhill cranes in North America converge on one surprisingly narrow stretch of river, and the ...

The honking of cranes fills the skies over central Nebraska each spring, as roughly 1.2 million sandhill cranes pass through the central part of the state during their annual migration.

The honking of cranes fills the skies over central Nebraska each spring, as roughly 1.2 million sandhill cranes pass through ...

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 ...

The impressive sandhill crane migration begins in earnest during the month of March, so much so that their calls fill the air to an almost deafening degree. In the Central Flyway, cranes gather in ...

NEAR WOOD RIVER, NEBRASKA -- Sandhill cranes dance shortly after sunrise near The Crane Trust, which is close to Wood River, Neb. on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Cranes can be three to four feet tall, ...

Listen to the predawn sounds of the sandhill cranes roosting on the Platte River in Nebraska. First, a murmur. Then wild chatter. And finally, takeoff! The Crane Trust has learned that one of the ...

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 grain in the ...

The Crane Trust learned that one of the sandhill cranes that stopped in central Nebraska last spring traveled 19,000 miles to nesting grounds in Russia.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma slowly flying and gliding into the area. For myself and many other people, ...