KEARNEY — Similar to the sandhill cranes, more than 20 travel writers will flock to the Kearney area in late March. The will see the cranes along with pelicans, The Archway and dozens of other unique ...

THE ART OF CRANES — Just in time for sandhill crane season, Carol Hines will open her newest show, “Cranes and Other Cool Birds” at her Wildflower Gallery at 108-110 W. Ninth St. in Wood River. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 bird flu ...

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 ...

The unusually cold start to the waterfowl migration season is proving to be a blessing for bird watchers along the Platte River, according to Andy Caven, director of research at Nebraska’s Crane Trust ...

NEAR WOOD RIVER, NEBRASKA -- Sandhill cranes dance shortly after sunrise near The Crane Trust, which is close to Wood River, Neb. on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Cranes can be three to four feet tall, ...

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 flocking ...