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 ...

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 ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - Each year, thousands of visitors flock to Greater Nebraska to view the majestic return of the Sandhill Crane. The sights and sounds are familiar to residents of the region, ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KNOP) - It’s that time of year where a unique migration descends upon Central Nebraska. From now through mid-April, more than one million Sandhill Cranes will roost along the ...

The Crane Trust has learned that one of the sandhill cranes that stopped in central Nebraska last spring then traveled 19,000 miles to nesting grounds in Russia.

Sandhill cranes dance and browse in a cut cornfield near Gibbon, Nebraska. The birds are starting to arrive in the area and will peak around a half-million in mid-March. Sandhill cranes pass in front ...

LINCOLN (AP) — Sandhill crane watchers are getting ready for a new season in central Nebraska after a prolonged cold spell and flooding last year that kept some people from seeing them in person.

Despite the cold weather, the number of sandhill cranes in Central Nebraska is still about 75 percent of the total at the same point in 2014. Andrew Caven, lead biologist for the Crane Trust, said the ...

Weather aside, migrating sandhill cranes are arriving in Nebraska. Monday morning's temperature in Kearney, Neb., was the same as ours, 5 below. The snow cover was much the same. There are cranes in ...

A rare and spectacular thing has happened along the Platte River west of Grand Island: People have seen and heard flocks of sandhill cranes in January. About 1,000 sandhill cranes have overwintered ...