As the Sandhill cranes arrive this spring, Colorado Parks and Wildlife finds no evidence of bird flu as an estimated 1,500 die in Indiana ...

Here’s how to watch 27,000 sandhill cranes migrate through Colorado this spring at the Monte Vista Crane Festival in the San ... Put this Colorado historic bird festival on your 2025 to-do list.

The birds that migrate through Colorado are the largest of the North American sandhill crane subspecies standing 4-feet tall with a wing-span of up to 7 feet and weighing in at 11 pounds.

Sandhill cranes take to the skies above the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Monte Vista on March 10, 2021. The Sandhill cranes are an iconic species of the San Luis Valley. Over 20,000 cranes ...

IF YOU GO. MONTE VISTA CRANE FESTIVAL. With tours, lectures, films, workshops, breakfast, craft and nature fair, Friday through Sunday, multiple locations throughout Monte Vista, crane viewing at ...

Thousands of Sandhill Cranes have converged on Colorado's Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge for a stopover before they head north. Each spring about 20,000 of the winged creatures take a ...

According to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife news release, historically, the Rocky Mountain sandhill crane population, which has been relatively stable at roughly 20,000 birds, has primarily bred in ...

Sandhill cranes have been migrating between their winter and summer homes, flying in large groups for thousands of miles, for centuries. But it’s only been since the 1970s that large numbers … ...

Nothing signals the arrival of spring in Colorado quite the like the arrival of the sandhill cranes in the San Luis Valley. The Monte Vista Crane Festival may be over, but there is still plenty of ...

Bird lovers aren't in love with the idea of a crane hunt in northwestern Colorado. The state Parks and Wildlife Commission is considering a hunting season on Sandhill cranes near Craig and ...

The birds followed the dulcet sounds of crane calls, which were emitted from a piloted ultra-light aircraft across nearly 1,500 miles of sky from Wisconsin to Florida.