A sandhill crane pair takes a stroll with its colt and adopted Canada gosling in Madison. Cynthia Carlson Whether the gosling will make it to adulthood and attempt to migrate remains an open question.

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

The sandhill crane features plumage colored tan-gray and a rusty-crimson crown. They have a 7-foot wingspan and a height of 31 to 47 inches tall and fossils of the sandhill crane have been traced ...

Sandhill crane fun facts Diet: omnivore, plants, grains, insects, grubs, mice, snakes, worms Average life span in the wild: 20 years Height: 31.5 to 47.2 inches Wingspan: 5 to 7 feet Weight: 6.5 ...

PLAINFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A family of sandhill cranes was caught on camera in Plainfield, a species of bird in Massachusetts that is of high conservation need. 22News received this photo of a ...

A crowned crane fossil, estimated to be about 10 million years old, was found in the Ashfall Beds in northeast Nebraska. These cranes were a close relative of sandhill cranes.

If you go • What: Viewing of sandhill cranes at the Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area. • When: The birds typically take off in mass flights around sunrise and return to roost between noon and 4 p.m.

MONA Collection Connection — “Sandhill Cranes” program at 2 p.m. March 28 featuring Laurel Badura of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and a feather crane painting activity with Sue Hart.

Nearly 35,000 sandhill cranes have swooped into the Sulphur Springs Valley near Willcox in an annual migration from mountain states and parts of Canada, the Arizona Game and Fish Department reports.

The eastern population of sandhill cranes—which primarily nest in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ontario—has rebounded from fewer than 20,000 birds in 1979 to around 110,000 in 2023 thanks to habitat ...

They were sandhill cranes: a long-legged, blueish-gray bird with a shock of red adorning its head. “I had never heard anything like that,” she said. Watching them soar moved her to tears.

Bleakley said there were 323 crane-related fatalities on construction sites nationwide from 1992 through 2006. Of those, 102 were related to contact with a power line; 68 involved a collapsing ...