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 ...

WOOD RIVER, Neb. — Nebraska’s cranes of spring have increasingly been arriving on the wings of winter. Large numbers of migrating sandhill cranes are arriving earlier and earlier in Nebraska with so ...

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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 ...

It was a spur of the moment decision my wife and I made to travel to Kearney, Nebraska, to observe the annual sandhill crane migration. Even though the weather was not going to be ideal, it appeared ...

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 — ...

Surveys asking travelers where they plan to vacation have consistently ranked Nebraska last among the 50 states. No wonder the state chose this for a tourism slogan: “Honestly, it’s not for everyone.” ...

Each spring, more than half a million Sandhill Cranes congregate along Nebraska's Platte River during their annual migration. Photo: Crane Trust Sometimes you just have to go on faith. That’s what I ...

Having plied the skies for ten million years, cranes are among earth’s oldest birds. In many cultures, the gorgeous, long-limbed creatures serve as spiritual totems. As North America’s prairie land ...

Three sandhill cranes fly up the Platte River to roosting sites on a sandbar near the Crane Trust about half an hour before sunset Thursday. An estimated 80,000 sandhill cranes roosting in the shallow ...