A record number of early-arriving sandhill cranes in the Platte River valley have experts eager to see just how long the ...

Sandhill cranes fly over Nebraska's Platte River, where they gather each year during their spring migration, in 2009. USFWS A record number of sandhill cranes arrived in central Nebraska during the ...

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 ...

The sandhill cranes usually start arriving along the central Platte River valley in Mid-February through the middle of April with the peak occurring around the middle of March. But this year has been ...

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 ...

Seeing the cranes gathering at sunset is a really fantastic experience. The river itself is beautiful, the sunset is spectacular and the cranes are truly amazing to see. As they have for millennia, ...

I’m a full-fledged “craniac” now that I’ve spent four days awestruck at one of Earth’s most epic animal migrations — on, of all places, the wind-whistling prairies of central Nebraska. Every year — ...

Meet a long-term survivor who shares similarities with the cranes of ten million years ago. Explore the sandhill crane’s ...

You don’t need to travel far to witness one of nature’s greatest migrations. Just take a short road trip to Fort Kearny State Historical Park in Nebraska, where this month, around one million Sandhill ...