Excitement fills the swamp this morning because something magical is about to happen. A sandhill crane chick has broken ...

Secreted in layout blinds just inside the edge of a small, grassy, sienna bean-cluttered island in the bare-dirt sea of a grain field, we waited. A handful of gray decoys stood 20 yards or so away ...

While a few sandhill cranes are inspecting the decoy spread, Wightman is seeking the location of his next day’s hunt. “I don’t know how many thousand miles I’ve put on this truck this year ...

OCONOMOWOC, Wis. (CBS 58) -- There is some concern and frustration in Oconomowoc after a protected sandhill crane was killed because it was deemed a nuisance.But law enforcement, crane experts ...

Sandhill cranes return to the same spots every year, so seeing some birds roosting with the decoys is “very exciting,” said Greg Golet, an avian ecologist with The Nature Conservancy who helps ...

The Legislative Study Committee on Sandhill Cranes is chaired by Rep. Paul Tittl (R-Manitowoc), author of the 2021 crane ...

In addition to Tittl, the sandhill crane study committee will include vice chair Sen. Romaine Quinn (R-Cameron), Rep. Dave Considine (D-Baraboo), Sen. Mark Spreitzer (D-Beloit) and likely eight ...

Don't stuff sandhill crane hunt down throat of Wisconsin. It will only divide us | Opinion Committee recommended the legislature direct the DNR “to authorize sandhill crane hunting in Wisconsin.” ...

Sandhill cranes are making an unexpected return to the Lake Tahoe basin after a century long hiatus caused by overhunting. The birds stand at about 4 feet tall with a wingspan of 7 feet and boast ...

Dig deeper: In 2019, the police chief in Portage, Wisconsin, issued an apology after an officer shot and killed a Sandhill crane. Police there said that bird was also pecking and damaging vehicles.

Nov. 2—Lodi's Sandhill Crane Festival returns to Hutchins Street Square this weekend for the first in-person event in two years, and organizers filled the two days with educational programs, art ...

Sandhill cranes near an office complex along North Port Washington Road south of Highland Road in Mequon on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Photo by Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via USA ...