A crowned crane fossil, estimated to be about 10 million years old, was found in the Ashfall Beds in northeast Nebraska. These cranes were a close relative of sandhill cranes.

Migratory sandhill cranes spend winters in warm places like Mexico and Texas and then make their way as far north as Alaska, ...

Tall, magnificent birds with long legs and necks, cranes spend most of their lives near the shallow water of swamps, lakes, streams, and ponds to hunt for prey and construct their nests. There are 15 ...

Some 1 million sandhill cranes will stop here for roughly a month, grazing on corn, a leftover agricultural product in the aptly named Corn Belt, before heading back to their Arctic and subarctic ...

Multiple states, including Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Texas and Wyoming, hold annual sandhill crane hunting seasons, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Wisconsin lawmakers introduced a ...

In 2023, analysis of OSHA data showed injuries at SpaceX's facilities exceeded the space industry's average. At SpaceX's ...

Sandhill crane fun facts Diet: omnivore, plants, grains, insects, grubs, mice, snakes, worms Average life span in the wild: 20 years Height: 31.5 to 47.2 inches Wingspan: 5 to 7 feet ...

A sandhill crane pair takes a stroll with its colt and adopted Canada gosling in Madison. Cynthia Carlson Whether the gosling will make it to adulthood and attempt to migrate remains an open question.

A SpaceX crane collapse at the company’s Starbase, Texas facility has prompted an investigation by OSHA, the federal agency ...

Nearly 35,000 sandhill cranes have swooped into the Sulphur Springs Valley near Willcox in an annual migration from mountain states and parts of Canada, the Arizona Game and Fish Department reports.

Cultivated grains make up the majority of a crane’s diet. The neck of a crane is much shorter than a heron’s neck. Cranes fly with their necks in a straight position.