OTTER CREEK MARSH will always offer a never ending challenge to wildlife biologists and managers. The trick is to work with ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.