An estimated 600,000 sandhill cranes — more than 80 percent of the world’s population — make an annual mid-migration rest stop in the Central Platte Valley, primarily between Kearney and Grand Island, ...

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 KETV producer recently went to central Nebraska to see the sandhill crane migration.Matt Brown shared video of his experience in Gibbon at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary.Brown ...

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, ...

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 ...

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — On Saturday, amateur and advanced birders alike will join Seth Chapman, a Kalamazoo-area birder, for a trip to Grassy Lake to witness the beginning of sandhill crane ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. – Now is the time to start planning a Platte River trip to experience the annual sandhill crane migration. Large numbers of sandhill cranes and waterfowl have begun arriving in the state ...

Thousands of visitors will arrive in Kearney soon for the 2019 spring migration season, with a focus on watching and photographing sandhill cranes from places like the old railroad bridge crossing the ...

The March weather for crane viewing has been spectacular compared to last year’s weather disaster that caused massive flooding throughout the area. This year was looking good. And then, just like that ...