The first time I saw the family, I did a double take. Two tall sandhill crane parents strutted through the marsh, their downy red colt toddling behind them. And then, just a few steps later, came ...

Excitement fills the swamp this morning because something magical is about to happen. A sandhill crane chick has broken ...

Feeding a colt (that's a baby crane) is a full time job. These Lesser Sandhill Cranes are finding leeches, worms, snails, fish, and other invertebrates in the mud. Between meals, preening feathers ...

The colt had some contact with other sandhill cranes before its slow but eventual release into the wild. The birds often fly over the center, Harmon said, and the colt would call back to them.

Kachemak Crane Watch’s new 35-minute video, Raising Kid Colt, was filmed over a span of two summers by amateur videographer, Nina Faust, who was able to film the intimate details of the lives of ...

Sandhill cranes are fabulous birds. ... The females usually lay two or sometimes three eggs, but often only one chick (colt) survives. They eat corn, tubers, insects, small mammals, ...

This was the first confirmed sandhill crane colt sighting at the Will County prairie in Wilmington since Midewin was established in 1996, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

A few days ago, while driving south of Finlayson, Jude and I found a family of Sandhill Cranes, two adults and one juvenile. It's hard to tell with the birds standing in tall grass, but by its ...

VENTURA — It’s history in the making. For the first time in more than a century, wild sandhill cranes are successfully nesting in Cerro Gordo County. They’ve become the current talk of the ...

The Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier is continuing its Colt Capers program for 3-5 year olds for the first Fridays of October, November and December. Colt Capers is a ...

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 ...