The impressive sandhill crane migration begins in earnest during the month of March, so much so that their calls fill the air to an almost deafening degree. In the Central Flyway, cranes gather in ...

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 ...

George Archibald, 79-year-old co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, has spent over 50 years protecting all 15 crane species worldwide and visits Nebraska's massive sandhill crane migration ...

As winter gives way to spring each year, a nature event unlike any other unfolds across the plains of central Nebraska: the annual Sandhill Crane migration. Between mid-February and early April, and ...

Listen to the predawn sounds of the sandhill cranes roosting on the Platte River in Nebraska. First, a murmur. Then wild chatter. And finally, takeoff! The Crane Trust has learned that one of the ...

It’s 82 miles wide with bookend towns of Overton and Chapman going from west to east across Nebraska. The stretch of the North Platte River between those two towns comes alive every spring with the ...

Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the ...

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 ...

Listen to the predawn sounds of the sandhill cranes roosting on the Platte River in Nebraska. First, a murmur. Then wild chatter. And finally, takeoff! The Crane Trust has learned that one of the ...

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, ...

The Crane Trust learned that one of the sandhill cranes that stopped in central Nebraska last spring traveled 19,000 miles to nesting grounds in Russia.