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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each spring about 600,000 sandhill cranes congregate on the Platte River in central Nebraska. Crane populations in the state peak about six weeks from now. It’s not too early, crane and tourism ...

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 just before the pandemic that I last went to see one of the most amazing natural spectacles on the face of the earth – the annual migration of the Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis) in south ...

You've heard their calls high overhead or seen them by the thousands feeding in grain fields paralleling the Platte River. You know that there seems to be a lot of them around at times and that bird ...