Benefit auction on Feb. 20 is the beginning of weekend events at this year's Marsh Madness in Linton, highlighting migrating birds, raptors and more.

ALERT AS THE GREAT SANDHILL CRANE MIGRATION BEGINS. ROUGHLY 1 MILLION CRANES WILL CONVERGE ON CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY NORTH TO NEST FOR THE SUMMER. BUT IN INDIANA, THE BIRD FLU HAS ...

Sandhill crane migration has made its annual return to central Nebraska. With numbers usually peaking at around 500,000 ...

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LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Bird flu has struck Fish Lake, as hundreds of birds, including a significant number of sandhill cranes, have dropped dead. Now the community is working to dispose of the ...

A SHORT WHILE ago, one of my favorite newsletters arrived in the mail. This isn’t a monthly or even a bimonthly publication. “Grus Americana” is published twice a year by the Whooping Crane ...

Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...

Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu, known ...

Michigan's largest birds are preparing to head south for the winter, but before they go, they're gathering in fields and marshes across the state. In celebration of the annual gathering and migration, ...

The whooping cranes’ fragile recovery highlights the need for renewed commitment to safeguarding America’s endangered species.

With a noise no less ancient than creation itself, the collected cacophony of an unimaginable number of awakening sandhill cranes was over-powering. No wonder then that Bill Taddickten strongly ...