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Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water. The central Platte River valley in Nebraska is the most important stopover area for the nominotypical subspecies, the great sandhill crane (A. c. canadensis), with up to 450,000 of these birds migrating through annually. [3] [4]
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 ...
An enormous flock of migrating sandhill cranes filled the Nebraskan sky on the morning of March 23.Nonprofit habitat maintenance group Crane Trust counted approximately 574,000 sandhill cranes in ...
It's estimated that more than 600,000 sandhill cranes pass through this region each spring, which is about 80% of the world’s sandhill population. Annual sandhill crane migration in Nebraska a ...
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 ...
In a study of sandhill cranes in Florida, seven of the 22 pairs studied remained together for an 11-year period. ... Aristotle describes the migration of cranes in ...
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 ...
With Operation Migration he flew numerous migrations with geese and cranes, and in 2000 did the major path-finding for the route that has been used to establish the migration of the Whooping Crane between Wisconsin and Florida. Lishman adopted eight sandhill cranes in spring 1995. Each had to be exercised, separately, for three hours daily, by ...