It was sunset in early March and a chirping sound echoed across the fields of the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado.

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 ...

At 5:45 a.m., standing in the snow at the edge of a frozen lake, my toes slowly going numb under two layers of socks, I heard it. Compared to the familiar early morning chatter of birds greeting the ...

While snow comes and goes and temperatures oscillate between winter and spring-like, birds are on the move. Migrations are in progress or just getting started. One of the most spectacular and a “must ...

Few natural sounds are more pleasing than the calls of sandhill cranes. Their elongated windpipes, coiled in the sternum, produce loud, rolling, trumpet-like vocalizations that last several seconds ...

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 ...

Industrialists and “old-school” conservationists who champion sport hunting are working elbow to elbow with the most eco-woke ...

Q. I saw the following quote on a poster at a wildlife sanctuary in Florida: “Cranes are large birds with long beaks found on every continent except Antarctica and South America." I understand cranes ...

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 ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma slowly flying and gliding into the area. For myself and many other people, ...

Velociraptor talons. Curled tracheas, which help produce a bugle that can be heard two miles away. A wingspan that can span 6 feet. The sandhill crane is a symbol of changing seasons in New Mexico, ...

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