The Choctaw wear a white crane feather on their baseball caps to indicate ability. The Lakota wear a red adornment called a pesa that is like the forehead of a sandhill. Cranes are guardian birds ...

Each spring, as winter reluctantly exits from the scene, we experience a snow melt along with the ice giving way to the chilly water. The daylight quickly lengthens from 11 hours in early March and is ...

Birds Are the Best Part of Spring We all need little signs of spring. When the wind chill dips and another bout of cold ...

Wisconsin needs hunters and non-hunters to work together to support natural resources. A sandhill crane season will only cause a larger divide between both groups.

Unless you have been hidden away in a basement for the last week, you know that the sandhill cranes have returned to the region. You have probably heard them overhead. Sandhill cranes are quite vocal.

In court records, Lincoln police say they were sent there April 9 and found 46-year-old Paul Crane and a 39-year-old man in the street bleeding, neither fully conscious. A witness had recorded ...

Gov. Jim Pillen announced a new initiative Monday aiming to expand the number of production animal veterinarians working in rural Nebraska. The Nebraska Rural Veterinary Grant Program will provide ...

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After all, Bitter Lake lies at the northern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, a refuge known mostly for its birdlife, especially its spectacular winter flocks of snow geese and sandhill cranes.