Some species are at their most active in winter, whether they’re flying, feeding, or mating. From elephant seals in ...

A record number of sandhill cranes gathered in Nebraska in mid-March during their annual spring migration. Matt Urbanski / Crane Trust Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nebraska doesn't come to mind when you're looking for a challenging hike with lots of elevation gain. Nope. Nebraska is known ...

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 ...

Crane Trust to feature a free documentary called 'Wings on Water' at theaters across the tri-cities next week.

NEAR WOOD RIVER, NEBRASKA -- Sandhill cranes dance shortly after sunrise near The Crane Trust, which is close to Wood River, Neb. on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Cranes can be three to four feet tall, ...

As Nebraska begins to celebrate its 150th birthday, a ceremony planned for March 1 in Lincoln will unveil the Nebraska Statehood Forever Stamp celebrating the state’s sesquicentennial. March is also ...

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 sandhill ...

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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 ...