Sandhill cranes fly over Nebraska's Platte River, where they gather each year during their spring migration, in 2009. USFWS A record number of sandhill cranes arrived in central Nebraska during 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 ...

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 — ...

Every year, over one million cranes roost in the Central Platte River Valley in Nebraska during their spring migration. The Crane Trust, a non profit preserving the crane’s habitat, offers guided ...

You don’t need to travel far to witness one of nature’s greatest migrations. Just take a short road trip to Fort Kearny State Historical Park in Nebraska, where this month, around one million Sandhill ...

ALDA - "About a dozen people, on a foot bridge crossing the Platte River, looked intensely Sunday evening, as the sun was slowly setting, at a recently grazed pasture filling with thousands of ...

SPRING IN THE SANDHILLS OF NEBRASKA. ONE OF NATURE’S WONDERS IS TAKING PLACE RIGHT NOW IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ANNUAL CRANE MIGRATION THIS TIME OF YEAR IS THE PEAK FOR THE CRANES. AND TODAY WAS THE BEST ...