KEARNEY, Neb.-They approached the sanctuary headquarters two hours before sunrise. Somewhere out there in the darkness, toward the river, a few distant calls could be heard-faintly-above the crunch of ...

ORLANDO — Few creatures in the animal kingdom deliver a louder message than the sandhill crane. Its rattling bugle calls, often strung together and lasting several seconds at a time, can be heard 2½ ...

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.Brown ...

Between the cross-talk, Stankevitz’s ears pick up a new sound: the looping arpeggio of two sandhill cranes vocalizing together. It’s a unison call, used to strengthen the bond between mating pairs and ...

If you’ve been outside near a stream or field recently and heard an unusual rolling, high-pitched trumpet-like sound, it may have been a sandhill crane. Montana State University's Accoustic Atlas has ...

They're Arizona's original snowbirds, the sandhill cranes that descend on the wetlands of southern Arizona every fall.

Be alert now for one of nature’s grandest events during November and December — the southbound migration of greater sandhilll cranes. Flying high in loose, undulating V-formations during the day, the ...

Local birders flock to wetland lookout points just around this time of year, when the bird makes its way to the California ...

Watching Sandhill Cranes Make the Journey SouthWinter is approaching, and the sandhill cranes have begun their long winter flight back South. Canadian nature writer Candace Savage stands in a field in ...

The Platte River winds across the heart of Nebraska, flat and wide like a frayed silver ribbon, tattered with shallows, braided by sandbars and surrounded by vast fields of corn. Each spring, for what ...

Steve Nesbitt–a retired Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission wildlife biologist, who over a FWC stint of some 35 years, developed a reputation for extensive knowledge about a slew of ...

Q: I saw the following quote on a poster at a wildlife sanctuary in Florida: "Cranes are large birds with long beaks found on every continent except Antartica and South America." I understand cranes ...