Arrivals and departures are staggered over several weeks, but at peak stopover, it's one of the great sights of natural ...

The Martin County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) said there was little time to act when its animal control officer sprang into action when a baby sandhill crane fell into a storm drain in the Willoughby ...

Long legs drifting below a pair of giant-winged birds, like silken threads caught in a gentle breeze, glide overhead. Their timeless journey celebrating spring’s arrival. I listen for an ancient avian ...

With their lanky legs and slender necks, sandhill cranes stand roughly three to four feet tall. Their bodies are covered in grayish-brown feathers, except for a patch of crimson on their heads.

“They actually kind of paint their feathers ... risk. Sandhill cranes have a long and vulnerable breeding season, according to Richardson. Their eggs incubate for about 30 days, and young ...

“It’s a birder’s paradise,” park ranger David Young noted. The cranes, with their distinctive red foreheads and gray feathers, fly to Alabama from the Great Lakes annually. The sandhill ...

Thousands of sandhill cranes are converging in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado as part of their annual northerly migration from New Mexico to habitat in states like Idaho and Montana.

MONTE VISTA — The 42nd annual Monte Vista Crane Festival is returning to the San Luis Valley this weekend! Sandhill cranes and other birds will be following their seasonal migration routes.

All of this sitting and thinking was while filming a sandhill crane ... everything the young bird needs to develop. So for the past month I have been watching the cranes sitting on the nest.

Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...