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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Oconomowoc police officer shot a sandhill crane after reports of its repeated damage to residents' property, causing some ...

One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

Each spring our region is visited by flocks of sandhill cranes. Their arrival is heralded by the sounds of these birds’ ...

A staggering share of all sandhill cranes in North America converge on one surprisingly narrow stretch of river, and the ...

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 ...

Anyone expecting sweeping, dramatic music as a rescued sandhill crane left its crate Wednesday at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area and soared into the crystal clear sky to join its tribe was ...

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Quick Take Sandhill cranes perform a funny-looking courtship dance to show off their fitness and strength to potential mates. They jump, bob their heads, and throw sticks and grass around to show off.

Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...

Over 100 migrating sandhill cranes have been found dead from avian influenza at Fish Lake. An estimated 1,500 sandhill cranes in Indiana have died from bird flu this year. The current H5N1 strain ...