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.

25,000 sandhill cranes – spared by bird flu – arrive in San Luis Valley just in time for Monte Vista festival. ... Courtesy of Dave Jones A sandhill crane near Monte Vista, Colorado in March 2016.

The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest bird in North America, has existed near the brink of extinction for decades, ...

Every year from early February through late March, more than 20,000 sandhill cranes descend upon the San Luis Valley to rest, feed, dance, and prepare for the next leg of their northerly migration.

Not even 500,000 sandhill cranes could overshadow the Crane Trust and the city of Grand Island during Thursday evening’s premiere showing of “The Crane Trust” at the Grand Theatre in ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says the bird flu is the likely cause of death of hundreds of sandhill cranes. Colorado Area Evacuated, School Closed As Emergency Alert Issued Actors ...

How do scientists follow an impressively long bird migration? They give a crane a GPS.A team of scientists used small GPS leg bands to follow 104 of these wading birds as they traveled across ...