They grow to nearly 4 feet tall, with soft gray plumage and heads capped with crimson crowns. Their call is a melodious bugle. They run, swim, fly and leap. The birds even dance, when the mood strikes ...

This isn't something I would expect you to have spent a long time thinking about, but what do you figure would happen if a black bear encountered a sandhill crane? I know, I never thought about it ...

Sandhill cranes are fabulous birds. Of all North American birds they are second only to whooping cranes in height. They migrate long distances from their winter feeding grounds in Texas, California, ...

Anyone expecting sweeping, dramatic music as a rescued sandhill crane left its crate Wednesday at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area and soared into the crystal clear sky to join its tribe was ...

“Put that damned thing away!” Evan Stabolitis hisses in the dark. He’s sitting on a lawn chair somewhere to my left in the portable blind he and his half dozen guides constructed on the edge of a ...

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 group ...

Each spring, more than half a million Sandhill Cranes congregate along Nebraska's Platte River during their annual migration. Photo: Crane Trust Sometimes you just have to go on faith. That’s what I ...

Sandhill cranes fly over Nebraska's Platte River, where they gather each year during their spring migration, in 2009. USFWS A record number of sandhill cranes arrived in central Nebraska during the ...

Monica King and her husband cut the ribbon on their new franchise restaurant in the Village at Sandhill last month. But up until recently, it wouldn’t have been the destination for them. “If you ...

Statewide, sandhill cranes are considered "threatened" and "imperiled," according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. However, on the Treasure Coast they are very common, due to ...