After more than 1,500 of the lanky birds died in Indiana, wildlife biologists in Nebraska were on high alert for the virus—but so far, the visiting birds seem happy and healthy ...

Arrivals and departures are staggered over several weeks, but at peak stopover, it's one of the great sights of natural America.

A flock of Sandhill Cranes flies over Rowe Sanctuary near ... “It is part of the identity, I think, of Nebraska,” Mellema said of these twin migrations. In cities like Grand Island and Kearney, ...

The particularly successful sandhill crane of North ... former director of both the Rowe and the Crane Trust nature center and now director of the Grand Island visitors bureau.