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 ...

Thousands of migrating sandhill cranes roost in the morning light on the Platte River on March 16. As a girl growing up in Kearney, Bree Dority valued the spectacle of the migrating sandhill cranes in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sharon Randall, who will speak at Thursday evening’s Kearney Hub Freedom Awards banquet, shared this 2002 column about Nebraska for Hub readers. Randall is taking the week off, and her ...

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 ...

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 ...