Sometimes, a great story package falls right into your lap. This week, my Coloradoan colleague Erin Hull told me she had visited the Great Sand Dunes over the weekend and wondered whether I'd like to ...

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Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MONTE VISTA — The high, sandy hills of the San Luis Valley might seem an ideal attractant for the towering bird known as the sandhill crane. Highlighted by ...

A SHORT WHILE ago, one of my favorite newsletters arrived in the mail. This isn’t a monthly or even a bimonthly publication. “Grus Americana” is published twice a year by the Whooping Crane ...

BATTLE CREEK, MI - Thousands of sandhill cranes are expected to descend upon a sanctuary outside of Bellevue near here during the 21st Annual CraneFest on Oct. 10-11. CraneFest provides crane ...

Some bird lovers are crying foul after the city of Palm Bay announced plans to build a playground near a sand hill crane nesting site. It’s an area of Palm Bay where the state threatened bird already ...

I live in Steeplechase subdivision off of Airport Road. As of last Friday, we were blessed to have five beautiful sand cranes frequenting our neighborhood. Saturday the number tumbled to four when a ...

Decisions don’t always go the way someone might want. Sometimes the best has to be made of the situation that exists. That appears to be what happened in the plans to locate a sand and gravel pit west ...