Sightings of sandhill cranes have ticked upward in Southcentral Alaska this month as the fall migration season nears. Mated pairs have been spotted in a few Anchorage residential neighborhoods and ...

Each spring, some of Nebraska’s most anticipated visitors descend on the Platte River in droves, both by land and by air: the ...

Q. I saw the following quote on a poster at a wildlife sanctuary in Florida: “Cranes are large birds with long beaks found on ...

Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly ... Vintage Chicago Tribune: American Airlines Flight 191 crashed near O’Hare airport 45 years ago. These are the 273 victims.

Between their six-foot wingspans, v-shaped flight patterns and horn-like calls, Sandhill cranes are hard to miss and a sight to behold. “The birds have started to return, there are some on the ...

Related: See photos of sandhill cranes migrating through Colorado Upward ... Watching tens of thousands of them take flight in coordinated rushes … well, even experienced writers struggle ...

And unlike herons, who tuck their necks into an “S” shape in flight, sandhill cranes fly with their necks outstretched, as photographed by Koelling. The cranes can be seen this time of year in ...

Also sandhill cranes are monogamous ... as they have for millennia, took flight.

More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness. Volunteers in ...

THE ART OF CRANES — Just in time for sandhill crane season, Carol Hines will open her newest show, “Cranes and Other Cool Birds” at her Wildflower Gallery at 108-110 W. Ninth St. in Wood River.

Few natural sounds are more pleasing than the calls of sandhill cranes. Their elongated windpipes ... the air in a graceful and energetic mini-flight. It’s a thrilling ritual I’ve witnessed ...

Suddenly, over the mild cacophony of various feeder birds out back, I heard the faint guttural rattling of sandhill cranes. In a flash, I shot out into the backyard to see a flock of 33 of the ...