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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Looking
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a crane family in Illinois, USA. When photographer Stan Kirschner saw these
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Drones: Wildlife Difficulty or Poaching Deterrent?
Drones have become popular conservation tools. The Bureau of Land Management, the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey have all used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor wildlife populations or to
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Video: The Great Migration of the Sandhill Crane
Each spring, more than 500,000 sandhill cranes come together on a narrow stretch of the Platte River in central Nebraska, as they have for thousands of years. On their way from their wintering grounds
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A Great Migration: Sandhill Cranes and Their Very Small Plot of Land
As I was driving home from the YMCA yesterday, I saw two sandhill cranes near a small pond that sits along the highway, only about a half-mile from my house. They were my first
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