The loud and rather discordant bugling of sandhill cranes has been reverberating throughout the region for some time now. South of La Crosse on Goose Island, for instance, I have heard them calling ...

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.

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WOOD RIVER, Neb.-To the human eye, the shallow, muddy Platte River surrounded by razed cornfields and brown pastureland is, at best, austere. To the half-million sandhill cranes that land along an ...

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DENVER (KDVR) — More than 20,000 greater sandhill cranes are currently migrating through Colorado, stopping in the Platte River Valley and the San Luis Valley as they transition into their summer ...

I’m a full-fledged “craniac” now that I’ve spent four days awestruck at one of Earth’s most epic animal migrations — on, of all places, the wind-whistling prairies of central Nebraska. Every year — ...