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.

Each spring, for close to a million years, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes ... on Governors Island in New York City — he commissioned her to make a meadowlark, Nebraska’s state ...

Daughters of the American Revolution Nebraska State Regent Ann Cox, right, pins Michelle Setlik after giving her a Woman in ...

Growing up in Grand Island, Nebraska, I have two completely unrelated memories of photography and the sandhill crane migration. First is my dad holding a Kodak camera with a flash cub. With each flash ...

A few rare whooping cranes are showing up too. Many cranes come here to nest and raise their young. Sandhill cranes take flight at Wyoming’s Table Mountain wildlife habitat management area. (Courtesy ...

Sandhill crane in flight. Frank Schulenburg CC BY-SA 4.0 https ... Their most notable stops are in Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and the Platte River in Nebraska. Watching them can be a ...

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

The Mid-continent population of sandhill cranes has been stable to increasing over the last decade, right around half a million to three quarters of a million birds.

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 ...

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 ...