Birdwatchers have a rare chance to witness thousands of the towering birds gather in wetlands and fields of the Platte River ...

The impressive sandhill crane migration begins in earnest during the month of March, so much so that their calls fill the air ...

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 ...

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 ...