Tall, magnificent birds with long legs and necks, cranes spend most of their lives near the shallow water of swamps, lakes, streams, and ponds to hunt for prey and construct their nests. There are 15 ...

Each spring our region is visited by flocks of sandhill cranes. Their arrival is heralded by the sounds of these birds’ penetrating calls. Their vocalization has been described as a loud rattling ...

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 ...

The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on Thursday after ...

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They say birds of a feather flock together, but a pair of sandhill cranes at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary in Green Bay, Wis. were having a hard time fitting in. The 3-year-old female crane, who ...

GIBBON, Neb. --Along the Platte River in the chilly moments before dawn, the silence is broken by a morning call. The chorus builds as the sun rises, and there they are: hundreds of thousands of ...