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Two sandhill cranes performed a dance spectacle in a park in De Leon Springs, Florida, on September 1. The two birds whirled exuberantly across the meadow, as if locked in a dance-off with one another ...

On September 1, 2025, in De Leon Springs, Florida, USA, @Joelalbair shared a video of two sandhill cranes dancing in muddy puddles. In the video, the cranes are seen flapping their wings, hopping, and ...

The loud and rather discordant bugling of sandhill cranes has been reverberating throughout the region for some time now. South of La Crosse on Goose Island, for instance, I have heard them calling ...

Sandhill cranes took flight at sunrise along the Platte River on April 6, 2025, in Kearney. See our photos here.

Few natural sounds are more pleasing than the calls of sandhill cranes. Their elongated windpipes, coiled in the sternum, produce loud, rolling, trumpet-like vocalizations that last several seconds ...

I’m a full-fledged “craniac” now that I’ve spent four days awestruck at one of Earth’s most epic animal migrations — on, of all places, the wind-whistling prairies of central Nebraska. Every year — ...