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Nature Smart: Sandhill cranes on the Platte River

A mere 80-mile stretch of Nebraska’s Platte River hosts upwards of half a million sandhill cranes each spring. (Photo by Stan Tekiela)

It was just before the pandemic that I’d last gone to see one of the most amazing natural spectacles in North America: the annual migration of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis) in south-central Nebraska. For the previous 30-plus years, I’d led a trip to view the crane migration each spring.
This year I had an incredible group of 10 who were fun and excited to see the cranes.

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