More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness. Volunteers in ...

The Legislative Study Committee on Sandhill Cranes is scheduled to vote Tuesday on three draft bills, including two that would allow crane hunting in Wisconsin, as the body wraps up its work on ...

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 ...

Of the 15 distinct species of cranes, two migratory cranes (sandhill and whooping) seem to be prime candidates for colonizing ...

As the stars faded into the first hints of light, thousands of sandhill cranes took their place in the sky, silhouetted by hues of pink, orange and gold. The birds emerged from barley fields and ...

Each spring, some of Nebraska’s most anticipated visitors descend on the Platte River in droves, both by land and by air: the ...

A lone sandhill crane has been spotted hanging out at Creamer’s Field — way past the time cranes normally migrate south. The adult crane appeared healthy, according to Mark Ross, the refuge ...

Sightings of sandhill cranes have ticked upward in Southcentral Alaska this month as the fall migration season nears. Mated pairs have been spotted in a few Anchorage residential neighborhoods and ...

Sandhill Cranes tend to stay in the fields that have been harvested for crops and feed on waste grain from corn and beans as well as grubs and insects. Shallow waters also tend to be the place ...

Somebody recently told me that birding is basically a modern-day dinosaur safari, and that statement really rings true with greater and lesser sandhill cranes. Sandhills are ginormous (that’s ...