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 ...

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 ...

McNEAL, AZ — Black ribbons of sandhill cranes are taking to Arizona's southern skies again. High above, against gradients of morning light, they throng in wide arrows searching for breakfast. The ...

On Friday, Dec. 6, I was toiling away in my home office. Suddenly, over the mild cacophony of various feeder birds out back, I heard the faint guttural rattling of sandhill cranes. In a flash, I shot ...

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 ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – The annual Festival of the Cranes will return to Decatur in January. This year, though, there are a few extra special additions. More than 20,000 sandhill cranes and roughly two ...