Somebody recently told me that birding is basically a modern-day dinosaur safari, and that statement really rings true with greater and lesser sandhill cranes. Sandhills are ginormous (that’s ...

Their monogamy has also attracted the unwelcome attention of local traditional healers, who claim that the parts of crested crane may bring faithfulness from a partner - or good luck. "Some people ...

Contributed photo / A dead sandhill crane rests on the edge of the water at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Rhea County, Tennessee, in a photo taken by photographer Kathleen Greeson on Feb. 4, 2025.

Each shipping container gets offloaded by towering cranes up to 400 feet tall. In some U.S. ports, they're automated, and that has Gary Herrera, president of the local longshoremen's union ...