On Friday, Dec. 6, I was toiling away in my home office. Suddenly, over the mild cacophony of various feeder birds out back, I heard the faint guttural rattling of sandhill cranes. In a flash, I shot ...

The backstory: Sandhill cranes were a popular game in the early 1900s and almost completely hunted out of most of California by 1944. They were still seen wintering in California, mainly in the ...

They aren’t the flashiest of birds, but they are harbingers of spring in Michigan. Keep your eyes and ears open for red-winged blackbirds, sandhill cranes, Canada geese and turkey vultures. These ...

An estimated 500,000 sandhill cranes congregate on the Platte River each spring. Individual cranes typically spend about two weeks along the Platte before their drive to get to northern breeding ...

Each spring about 600,000 sandhill cranes congregate on the Platte River in central Nebraska. Crane populations in the state peak about six weeks from now. It’s not too early, crane and tourism ...

With their winter migration underway, nature’s largest, most recognizable birds have returned to their winter quarters in San Joaquin County, giving outdoor enthusiasts reason to celebrate. You can ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma slowly flying and gliding into the area. For myself and many other people, ...

State legislators this summer will lead a committee to review and recommend options for sandhill crane management in Wisconsin, possibly to include a hunting season for the species. The Legislative ...

Remember this? A juvenile sandhill crane nicknamed 'Sandy Baby' became an unexpected local celebrity in the early-1980s after choosing crabapples over migration ...

Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly persistent strain of avian influenza, killing at least 1,500 of the migrating birds in recent weeks, according to a biologist with the Indiana ...

MONTE VISTA — For thousands of years, an unbelievable cascade of Greater Sandhill Cranes have poured down on the San Luis Valley near the end of winter as part of their northerly migration. According ...

The sandhill crane descending on the Wisconsin countryside is a beautiful thing. Its gray wings are long and graceful, and it doesn’t swoop — it floats in, like a cloud slipping from the sky. Its ...