Families can come in all sorts of different shapes, sizes, and even species, as it turns out. That’s certainly the case in Madison, Wisconsin, where a pair of sandhill cranes with a leggy young chick ...

MARTIN COUNTY — Meredith Bigelow stepped outside and found herself in a standoff with a 4-foot-tall sandhill crane. "The bird was standing by the front of my car, just pecking at it, like super ...

Sandhill cranes have a long and vulnerable breeding season, according to Richardson. Their eggs incubate for about 30 days, and young sandhills don't learn how to fly until several months after birth.

The sandhill cranes stop at Jasper-Pulaski preserve because, like any creature, they have habits and return each migratory season. They stop to rest and eat waste grain and insects and grubs.

Many people were amazed and pleasantly surprised to see thousands of sandhill cranes gathered near the Wisconsin River in Baraboo this past weekend, Nov. 11-12. The area's protective wetlands and ...

An isolated population of sandhill cranes lives and breeds in Florida, although most of these are migratory. Most springtime breeding activity of American cranes occurs in northern states and Canada.

O'Donell, the Galveston representative to the Houston Audubon Board, is one of the birders involved in Breakfast With the Sandhill Cranes, an annual presentation and tour to be held Dec. 13-14.

Sandhill cranes are native to Florida's prairies and wetlands, according to FWC. But because of habitat loss, they're often spotted in suburban areas such as neighborhoods and near roads and highways.

A steady wind rolls across the landscape, whistling through the spring growth near a nest, as a sandhill crane named Athena scans the horizon for threats and cares for her recently laid egg.