Birdwatchers have a rare chance to witness thousands of the towering birds gather in wetlands and fields of the Platte River Valley.

Sandhill crane migration has made its annual return to central Nebraska. With numbers usually peaking at around 500,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over 80% of North America's sandhill cranes stop in Nebraska in March, creating one of the most spectacular bird migrations in the US.

Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu, known ...

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Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly persistent strain of avian influenza, killing at least 1,500 of the migrating birds in recent weeks, according to a biologist with the Indiana ...

The return of the sandhill crane to Wisconsin is a conservation success, but now the state needs to manage the population and the crop damage the birds can cause. (Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

Birdwatchers have a rare chance to witness thousands of the towering birds gather in wetlands and fields of the Platte River Valley.