DENVER (KDVR) — More than 20,000 greater sandhill cranes are currently migrating through Colorado, stopping in the Platte River Valley and the San Luis Valley as they transition into their summer ...

“Whooper, eleven o’clock,” whispered one of our guides. On a bitter Nebraska morning in early March, I pivoted in the viewing blind to find a regal, 5-foot-high bird standing among a group of about ...

MONTE VISTA — Each year from early February through late March, immense flocks of sandhill cranes make a pit-stop in the San Luis Valley during their northerly migration; most prominently, thousands ...

As winter approaches, snowbirds are beginning their annual migration to Arizona for more temperate weather. But it's not just the people from northern states escaping snowed-in homes. These are actual ...

It was a spur of the moment decision my wife and I made to travel to Kearney, Nebraska, to observe the annual sandhill crane migration. Even though the weather was not going to be ideal, it appeared ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — More than 20,000 greater ...

Whooping cranes are in the midst of their fall migration and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota over the next several weeks. Anyone seeing these endangered birds as ...

Sandhill cranes take to the skies above the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Monte Vista on March 10, 2021. The Sandhill cranes are an iconic species of the San Luis Valley. Over 20,000 cranes spend ...

Thousands of cranes flock to southwest Colorado on their annual migration. March 29, 2009— -- In the high mountain desert of southwest Colorado, the temperatures can still be bitterly cold when ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I am cruising the gravel roads just south of Interstate 80 in Nebraska with my parents when suddenly I spot them: a mass of leggy grey birds with dark red ...

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 ...