Sandhill crane migration has made its annual return to central Nebraska. With numbers usually peaking at around 500,000 ...

ALERT AS THE GREAT SANDHILL CRANE MIGRATION BEGINS. ROUGHLY 1 MILLION CRANES WILL CONVERGE ON CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY NORTH TO NEST FOR THE SUMMER. BUT IN INDIANA, THE BIRD FLU HAS ...

A flock of Sandhill Cranes flies over Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska, on March 21, 2025. (© Leesa Goodson via Courthouse News) GIBBON, Neb. (CN) — Before dawn on a recent Friday, thousands of ...

Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking to central Nebraska during their annual migration—and so far, the leggy birds appear to be unaffected by the highly contagious bird flu ...

Up to 1 million Sandhill Cranes are expected to converge on the Platte River during the 2026 migration. Narrowing river channels—often less than 400 feet wide—can create nighttime security gaps for ...

Each spring about 600,000 sandhill cranes congregate on the Platte River in central Nebraska. Crane populations in the state peak about six weeks from now. It’s not too early, crane and tourism ...

Flocks of the migratory sandhill crane fly thousands of miles back to the Great Lakes and Canada after spending the winter in North Central Florida’s wetlands, like Paynes Prairie in Alachua County.

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 ...

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 ...