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 ...

In the wake of an unprecedented mass die-off of sandhill cranes due to bird flu in Indiana, wildlife specialists are expressing heightened concerns over the potential impact of the disease to birds as ...

Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly persistent strain of avian influenza, killing at least 1,500 of the migrating birds in recent weeks, according to a biologist with the Indiana ...

Sandhill Cranes preen in their habitat. These cranes and Whooping Cranes will be the subject of a conservation talk at 5 p.m. Thursday at Wild Birds Unlimited in Greenwood. Provided by Indiana ...

MEDARYVILLE — Every fall, sandhill cranes migrate south, making a pit stop en masse at the Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area in one of the Calumet Region's greatest natural spectacles. The massive cranes ...

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Thousands of Sandhill Cranes are starting to gather at the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge as they prepare for migration.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes alight on the plains of Nebraska along the Platte River. “Experiencing the spring sandhill crane migration in Nebraska should be on every bird ...

MEDARYVILLE — One of Indiana's most dramatic natural spectacles came and went more quickly than wings flapping away in the distance. More than 20,000 sandhill cranes made their way to the ...

Sandhill cranes begin their annual fall migration in October. You can see hundreds during CraneFest 2025 near Bellevue.