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 ...

Every spring, thousands of sandhill cranes descend on Nebraska’s Platte River, marking one of the largest wildlife migrations in the world.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes alight on the plains of Nebraska along the Platte River. “Experiencing the spring sandhill crane migration in Nebraska should be on every ...

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.

Sandhill cranes are returning to the region. Their number a few thousand now, but their numbers will peak by late April with some 600,000 of these birds in Nebraska and 150,000 to 170,000 in the ...

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.

Several thousand cranes are making their way through Nebraska — from Alda to Lewellen, you can hear the unique and primeval call of the sandhill crane.

With little snow to bother them, thousands of sandhill cranes stopped their southern migration in Nebraska. "The past few years have been kind of crazy," says Bethany Ostrom, lead biologist ...

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 ...

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.