Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, is taking a toll on migrating sandhill cranes and other waterfowl as the deadly ...

As a farm boy and conservationist, I’m here to tell you the reality: If we want to save the sandhill crane, it’s time to ...

In the 1800s, cranes were nearly hunted into extinction. The animals’ reemergence from death’s door is something to be ...

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NOTE: Article updated for the 2025 Sandhill Crane Festival March 21st through 23rd 2025. The Columbia National Wildlife ...

The sandhill crane descending on the Wisconsin countryside is a beautiful thing. Its gray wings are long and graceful, and it doesn’t swoop — it floats in, like a cloud slipping from the sky.

Cranes do not speak our language. Their behaviors are often more aligned with our moral ideals — loyalty, community, honesty, honor and integrity — than many humans. In some countries, cranes ...

In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn stalks and shallow water searching for corn, berries, seeds a ...

Birds gather by the thousands during sandhill crane migration. Visit central Nebraska to witness the magic of this bird hotspot.

For much of the time since, small islands in the lake were frozen over in the winter and so of no interest to the common ...