With crane viewing season underway, both the Crane Trust Nature and Visitor Center at Interstate 80 Alda Exit 305 and the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon are offering ...

GIBBON — Framework for the first of four new “discovery stations” at Rowe Sanctuary is taking shape near a well-used sandhill crane viewing blind along the Platte River east of the Iain Nicolson ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Aging Partners has invited adults ages 60 and older for “An Evening with the Cranes” at the Rowe Sanctuary in Gibbon on Thursday, April 3. The bus departs the Victory Park ...

Rowe Sanctuary Director Bill Taddicken closes barn-type sliding doors on the back of one of the four new discovery stations along the Platte River. The doors will be closed during sandhill crane ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local crane organizations are gearing up for crane season and aim to teach visitors that cranes are "not just a bunch of birds." Chuck Cooper, president and chief executive officer of the Crane Trust, ...

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 ...

Michigan's largest birds are preparing to head south for the winter, but before they go, they're gathering in fields and marshes across the state. In celebration of the annual gathering and migration, ...

Margery Nicolson of California has visited Nebraska almost every spring since 1999 to watch the sandhill crane migration through the Platte River Valley. She volunteers as a guide at the Rowe ...

GIBBON — In Tuesday's bitter wind and cold, 10 shivering officials picked up golden shovels near the Platte River and broke ground for the $12.5 million expansion of the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center ...