Local birders flock to wetland lookout points just around this time of year, when the bird makes its way to the California ...

Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu, known ...

Some other places to see sandhill cranes are: Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Yolo County Bypass Wildlife Area and the ...

An Oconomowoc police officer shot a sandhill crane after reports of its repeated damage to residents' property, causing some neighbors to wonder whether authorities could have taken other measures to ...

Sandhill cranes came in by the dozens, and then dozens more, to the grassy marsh of Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. They had ...

ALERT AS THE GREAT SANDHILL CRANE MIGRATION BEGINS. ROUGHLY 1 MILLION CRANES WILL CONVERGE ON CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY NORTH TO NEST FOR THE SUMMER. BUT IN INDIANA, THE BIRD FLU HAS ...

Sandhill cranes, which can stand up to 4 feet tall and have a wingspan of 6 to 8 feet, made their migratory trek to winter in ...

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 ...

MARTIN COUNTY — Meredith Bigelow stepped outside and found herself in a standoff with a 4-foot-tall sandhill crane. "The bird was standing by the front of my car, just pecking at it, like super ...

Sandhill cranes have been migrating between their winter and summer homes, flying in large groups for thousands of miles, for centuries. But it’s only been since the 1970s that large numbers of those ...