Sandhill cranes are making a surprising return to the Lake Tahoe basin after a century long hiatus caused by overhunting. Why it matters: Despite their resilience, the bird’s numbers are still low in ...

For centuries, there was a familiar spring and summer element in the Sierra Nevada skies: hundreds of enormous white birds soaring over the lakes and mountains. On land, their courtship displays were ...

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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 ...

In the wake of an unprecedented mass die-off of sandhill cranes due to bird flu in Indiana, wildlife specialists are expressing heightened concerns over the potential impact of the disease to birds as ...

CLARISSA, Minn. — An investigation is underway after a conservation officer found a dead sandhill crane lying next to a nest with eggs in central Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Natural ...