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

Of the 15 distinct species of cranes, two migratory cranes (sandhill and whooping) seem to be prime candidates for colonizing ...

An isolated population of sandhill cranes lives and breeds ... Generally, we hear the cranes when they are in flight. There were lots of frogs calling that night, and we wondered whether a frog ...

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

The count, done through weekly flight estimates ... Kanz said there were no confirmed cases of bird flu among the sandhill cranes in the Central Flyway, which includes Nebraska.

These birds wintered farther south than their early migrant counterparts (like red-winged blackbirds, sandhill cranes ... up with millions of birds in flight some nights. (Night is the preferred ...

Spring and summer are the seasons of the juvenile bird! Warm your heart with these too-cute photos of young birds out in the ...

Their ancient lineage makes them one of the oldest living bird species, and their physical features tell about a world when flight was less essential for survival. Sandhill cranes have been around ...