One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

A SHORT WHILE ago, one of my favorite newsletters arrived in the mail. This isn’t a monthly or even a bimonthly publication. “Grus Americana” is published twice a year by the Whooping Crane ...

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In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, Jenny Nehring longs for this time of year, when her eyes look to the big sky and the big birds flying en masse against the Sangre de Cristo peaks, snow-capped and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of sandhill cranes were at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area in February 2023 during their migration north. If you want ...

With a noise no less ancient than creation itself, the collected cacophony of an unimaginable number of awakening sandhill cranes was over-powering. No wonder then that Bill Taddickten strongly ...

Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MONTE VISTA — The high, sandy hills of the San Luis Valley might seem an ideal attractant for the towering bird known as the sandhill crane. Highlighted by ...

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Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu, known ...

As temperatures get warmer, Sandhill cranes migrate north for the spring; and Pulaski County is one of the places they gather. Nick Echterling, Property Manager at Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife ...