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A sandhill crane forages Feb. 27 in Green Bay. This year the cranes departed Jan. 12 and returned Feb. 12, the "shortest (in days) migration we've ever recorded," Radtke said.
Migratory flocks contain hundreds of birds, and can create clear outlines of the normally invisible rising columns of air (thermals) they ride. Sandhill cranes fly south for the winter. In their wintering areas, they form flocks over 10,000.
Nearly 1,000 casualties highlight need to dim city lights. Meanwhile, here are chances to safely view migratory birds.
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 ...
These include Canada geese and robins, flocks of which were seen through the winter of 2023-24 in Milwaukee, for example, as well as scattered cases of great-blue herons and sandhill cranes, said ...
The eastern bluebird is New York's state bird The following list of birds of New York included the 503 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of August 2022. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species ...
Sandhill cranes breed and spend the warmer months across the northern United States, ranging from Alaska and Canada to New York and Maine, according to Cornell University's "All About Birds" database.
The Greek for crane is Γερανος (geranos), which gives us the cranesbill, or hardy geranium. The crane was a bird of omen. In the tale of Ibycus and the cranes, a thief attacked Ibycus (a poet of the sixth century BCE) and left him for dead. Ibycus called to a flock of passing cranes, which followed the attacker to a theater and hovered ...