Prarie Chickens Sandhill Crane Trivia Witnessing the gathering of half a million cranes under a blazon Nebraska sunset stirs our senses and sparks our imagination like few experiences can. This article will provide you with a crash course in sandhill crane biology.
Cranes are among the oldest living birds on the planet.
Fossil records place Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska more than nine million years ago, long before there was a Platte River, which, by comparison, is only a youthful 10,000 years of age. Yet cranes survived and watched as American bison, pronghorn, and wapiti evolved on the prairies. Humans now dominate the landscape having replaced the bison with cattle and the prairie with corn and concrete. There are six subspecies of Sandhill Cranes of which three are migratory and three are non-migratory. The Florida sandhill crane is doing well.