Every year, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes alight on the plains of Nebraska along the Platte River. “Experiencing the spring sandhill crane migration in Nebraska should be on every ...

Sandhill cranes and other birds are arriving at places ... but Navarino Nature Center Assistant Naturalist Kaylee Lietz says area migration has been filled with ups and downs.

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

En route, more than three-fourths of all sandhill cranes use migratory staging areas in a single 75-mile stretch along Nebraska's Platte River. Most sandhill cranes live in freshwater wetlands.

This is the sandhill crane ... rattling call on its migration route from wintering grounds in New Mexico to nesting grounds in northern Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

Shallow water is a key characteristic of the Platte River — and indeed, maps of sandhill crane migration routes resemble an hourglass, as cranes converge on this region before spreading out again as ...