Listen closely on a cool October morning in Illinois and you might hear a rattling, rolling call drifting down from far above ...

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, ...

KEARNEY, Neb.-They approached the sanctuary headquarters two hours before sunrise. Somewhere out there in the darkness, toward the river, a few distant calls could be heard-faintly-above the crunch of ...

One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a beautiful red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

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, ...

We were there for a close-up view of one of North America’s greatest wildlife spectacles: the annual spring gathering of more than one million sandhill cranes along an 80-mile stretch of the Platte ...

One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

It’s that time of year in the Sacramento area — when everyone’s favorite winter visitors arrive by the thousands. A wildlife enthusiast who recently spotted sandhill cranes at the Llano Seco Unit ...

Migrating sandhill cranes fly above the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge near Zimmerman, Minn., shortly after sunrise on Nov. 13. Every fall, thousands of migrating sandhill cranes stop to rest at ...

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 — ...