A KETV producer recently went to central Nebraska to see the sandhill crane migration.Matt Brown shared video of his experience in Gibbon at the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary.Brown ...

The spring migration of millions of waterfowl and more than 500,000 sandhill cranes through the Platte River Valley is only one example of avian migrations worldwide. The mysteries of migrating birds ...

A flock of Sandhill Cranes flies over Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska, on March 21, 2025. (© Leesa Goodson via Courthouse News) GIBBON, Neb. (CN) — Before dawn on a recent Friday, thousands of ...

North Platte will be a temporary home for more than 300,000 sandhill cranes during the peak season of March to early April. Each year, the cranes spend six weeks in the Platte River Valley on their ...

An estimated 18,000 people visited the Iain Nicolson Audubon Center during the 2015 migration season. This year, general tours will be available from March 5 through April 3. A record 231,000 or more ...

WOOD RIVER — The weather hasn't shown much kindness so far in the new year. Through February and into March there was much snow and bitter cold. Then came a sudden warm spell that quickly melted the ...

Sandhill cranes fly up the Platte to roosting sites on a sandbar. The sandhill crane migration of 2019 is around the corner, and Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary has just opened registration for its prime ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sharon Randall, who will speak at Thursday evening’s Kearney Hub Freedom Awards banquet, shared this 2002 column about Nebraska for Hub readers. Randall is taking the week off, and her ...

Nature served us a feast on a riverine platter — a Platte banquet for the senses. As they have for millennia in this central flyway, the clucking, screeching, gurgling sandhill cranes returned last ...

THE ART OF CRANES — Just in time for sandhill crane season, Carol Hines will open her newest show, “Cranes and Other Cool Birds” at her Wildflower Gallery at 108-110 W. Ninth St. in Wood River. The ...