Check out the flight of the sandhill cranes from their nightly resting spot atop sandbars along the Platte River early in the ...

Each spring, the Platte River Valley in central Nebraska becomes the backdrop for one of North America’s largest wildlife ...

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

Flocks of cranes have been coming to the Platte River every spring for millions of years. Sandhill crane numbers have grown ...

The impressive sandhill crane migration begins in earnest during the month of March, so much so that their calls fill the air ...

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 ...

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 — ...

It was a spur of the moment decision my wife and I made to travel to Kearney, Nebraska, to observe the annual sandhill crane migration. Even though the weather was not going to be ideal, it appeared ...

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 ...

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 ...