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 ...

Sandhill crane migration has made its annual return to central Nebraska. With numbers usually peaking at around 500,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up to 1 million Sandhill Cranes are expected to converge on the Platte River during the 2026 migration. Narrowing river channels—often less than 400 feet wide—can create nighttime security gaps for ...

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 ...

The North Platte River is the perfect place to view the cranes as they roost for the night, or as they wake up and take off for another day 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 ...

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 ...

Every year, Nebraska’s Platte River becomes a corridor of motion and sound as sandhill cranes arrive from the south. By mid- to late February 2026, the first birds are likely to be circling low over ...