This is a special time of year around here. One reason to celebrate the change in seasons is the arrival of birds for their winter migration stop. The most famous visitor is thegreater sandhill crane, a huge bird that stands 5 feet tall and has a gray body and red cap on its head. ...
We learn that crane fossils found in Nebraska date the migration back nine million years, long before there were corn fields or even a Platte River. While cranes are hunted in the U.S. and Canada, Nebraska has always forbidden it. The overall economic impact of the migration was $14.3 mil...
LDWF has been working to restore a wild whooping crane population in Louisiana. Fifty juvenile cranes, brought to Louisiana in four separate cohort groups, have been released at LDWF’s White Lake property near Gueydan since 2011. Prior to this incident, 33 of those birds were alive and well ...
Whooping Crane shot and killed near Miller, South Dakota “…A 26-year-old Miller man must pay $85,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to illegally shooting an endangered whooping crane, U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson announced Wednesday.…” ...
Because Sandhill cranes nested in the marsh behind my first shop, in Morrisonville, Wisconsin, about 45 minutes south of the International Crane Foundation. We were also near a nesting site at my last shop near Fort Atkinson. Sandhill Cranes were sited for the first time in 30 years in the...