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 ...

She explained that when sandhill cranes first arrive in the Platte Valley, they're anxious to leave the river in the mornings and get to the fields to feed. By late March, they will have put on weight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...