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 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 ...

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 ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - Each year, thousands of visitors flock to Greater Nebraska to view the majestic return of the Sandhill Crane. The sights and sounds are familiar to residents of the region, ...

Sandhill cranes dance and browse in a cut cornfield near Gibbon, Nebraska. The birds are starting to arrive in the area and will peak around a half-million in mid-March. Sandhill cranes pass in front ...

Thousands of migrating sandhill cranes roost in the morning light on the Platte River on March 16. As a girl growing up in Kearney, Bree Dority valued the spectacle of the migrating sandhill cranes in ...

Several thousand cranes are making their way through Nebraska — from Alda to Lewellen, you can hear the unique and primeval call of the sandhill crane. Cranes are one of the oldest birds on earth. A ...

The spring migration of millions of waterfowl and more than 500,000 sandhill cranes through the Platte River Valley is only one example of avian migrations worldwide. The mysteries of migrating birds ...

A rare and spectacular thing has happened along the Platte River west of Grand Island: People have seen and heard flocks of sandhill cranes in January. About 1,000 sandhill cranes have overwintered ...

“We’re looking at hundreds and not thousands at this point,” said Bill Taddicken, director of the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary. “We will continue to build numbers from now on.” ...