One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu, known ...

Follow the 2026 Sandhill Crane scouts as they reach Nebraska’s Platte River to rest, refuel on corn, and launch their journey ...

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What are those lanky, gray birds leisurely walking around our backyards, roadways and towns? Here's where you can find Florida sandhill cranes ...

Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...

BIRCHWOOD, Tenn. — For more than three and a half decades, the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Festival has drawn thousands of visitors eager to witness one of nature’s most remarkable migrations. Many ...

NAVARINO (WLUK) -- The sights and sounds of spring are all around. "A lot of times you can hear them before you're going to see them. We'll hear them. We will hear them all over, flying overhead," ...

A record number of sandhill cranes gathered in Nebraska in mid-March during their annual spring migration. Matt Urbanski / Crane Trust Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking ...