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 ...

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 ...

Quick Take Up to 1 million Sandhill Cranes are expected to converge on the Platte River during the 2026 migration. Narrowing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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