Cranes “bow” when they greet each other & flocks continuously fly over the Platte at sunset.
N ebraska’s amazing Sandhill Crane Migration is a spectacle not to be missed! As someone who spends most of her free time in Africa, I got a lot of surprised looks from friends who asked me where my trip was this year and I told them “Nebraska.” I’d known about the Sandhill Cranes congregating in Bosque Del Apache, NM but never realized that the largest migration goes right through the middle of Nebraska. I discovered the Crane Trust last year at the Travel and Adventure Show in Los Angeles. After seeing the Trust’s photographs and learning more about their conservation efforts for the cranes, I thought “what a great thing to experience!” The Crane Trust has been around for 40 years and has systematically bought up land along the Platte River where the cranes need to roost and feed in nearby cornfields, on their migration north to their breeding grounds. Although they are concentrated primarily in a seven mile stretch of the river in Nebraska, they have come from
Mexico, Texas and New Mexico on their journey north to this important stop over. When they go to their nesting grounds on the northern end of their migration paths, they spread out even farther with some in Canada, Nova Scotia and others going past Alaska all the way to Siberia. This map from the Crane Trust shows their amazing flight path. A sight to behold! You can plan to see this great crane migration during the early spring.
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