This article is part of an eight-part series on bird conservation presented by the Sacajawea Audubon Society, whose mission is to protect birds and their habitats.

The application period for the 2026-27 Sandhill Crane quota hunt, the 2026-27 Bobwhite Quail quota hunt, and the Game Warden ...

Up to 1 million Sandhill Cranes are expected to converge on the Platte River during the 2026 migration. Narrowing river channels—often less than 400 feet wide—can create nighttime security gaps for ...

We get it, those echoes sound pretty fun!

For the first time this fall, sandhill cranes will be fair game for hunters in certain parts of Quebec and Ontario.

A record number of sandhill cranes gathered in Nebraska in mid-March during their annual spring migration. Matt Urbanski / Crane Trust Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking ...

One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

She and her husband have watched a couple of sandhill cranes roosting outside their home in Oxford, Michigan, but Mindy Denninger had never seen thousands flying overhead, as they were on a recent day ...

Thousands of sandhill cranes gather at a quiet Michigan sanctuary each fall, turning the sunset sky into something ...

A fossil from the Miocene Epoch, some ten million years ago, was found to be structurally the same as the modern sandhill crane. Today, these large birds are found predominately in North America. They ...

Sandhill cranes have been migrating between their winter and summer homes, flying in large groups for thousands of miles, for centuries. But it’s only been since the 1970s that large numbers of those ...