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Cranes prepare for migration in wetlands with agricultural fields nearby. ... Many people were amazed and pleasantly surprised to see thousands of sandhill cranes gathered near the Wisconsin River ...
As many as 35,000 sandhill cranes will pass through Eastern Washington on their spring migration, and one of the best ways to see the birds en masse is at the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival ...
Sandhill cranes stop at Jasper-Pulaski Fish & Wildlife Area during fall migration south. People flock to marvel; staff and volunteers count.
The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their habitat such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water.
The refuge plays host to the largest wintering populations of lesser sandhill cranes and Ross's geese within the Pacific Flyway. Each autumn over 20,000 cranes and 60,000 arctic nesting geese terminate their annual migrations from Alaska and Canada to make the refuge home for six months. Here they mingle with thousands of other visiting ...
Young whooping cranes completing their first migration, from Wisconsin to Florida, following an ultralight aircraft from Operation Migration. Operation Migration was a nonprofit, charitable organization, which developed a method using ultralight aircraft to teach migration to captive-raised, precocial bird species such as Canada geese, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and endangered whooping ...
Sandhill cranes wintering in southern Arizona are the "single best wildlife viewing experience" in the state, one official said. Thousands of Sandhill cranes will migrate to Arizona this winter ...
Common cranes (Grus grus) in Israel: Many species of crane gather in large groups during migration and on their wintering grounds. Cranes in spring in Mecklenburg (Germany) The cranes are diurnal birds that vary in their sociality by season and location.