The Ohio Division of Wildlife is accepting volunteers to help with the annual sandhill crane count, which takes place this ...

Division of Wildlife is seeking volunteers for the fifth annual Midwest Crane Count on the morning of Saturday, April 12. The ...

The Midwest Crane Count will take place Saturday morning in 33 Ohio counties, including Ashland, Marion, Richland and Wayne.

A fossil from the Miocene Epoch, some ten million years ago, was found to be structurally the same as the modern sandhill crane. Today, these large birds are found predominately in North America.

Today, sixty years later, I am excited to have once again visited central Nebraska in March for the sandhill crane migration.

There is a heightened alert as the great sandhill crane migration begins. An estimated million cranes will converge on central Nebraska as they make their annual trek north to nest for the summer.

Dead birds float in Fish Lake in Indiana. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says for the first time, sandhill cranes are being killed by bird flu. Michael Puente/WBEZ Share Sean Leone ...

NOTE: Article updated for the 2025 Sandhill Crane Festival March 21st through 23rd 2025. The Columbia National Wildlife ...

Wisconsin needs hunters and non-hunters to work together to support natural resources. A sandhill crane season will only cause a larger divide between both groups.

For the third time in 14 years, a bill to open a sandhill crane hunting season in Wisconsin has been introduced in the Legislature. The previous proposals failed to advance to the governor ...

The sandhill crane population in Ohio appears to be increasing. Last year, 412 sandhill cranes were counted in Ohio, up from 357 the previous year. This year's crane count will take place this ...