by Bethany Ostrom | Nov 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hey all! We got some cranes yesterday morning! We estimate around 1,500 Sandhill Cranes betweenChapman and Overton NE. The Sandhill Cranes were roosting in the river between Highway 281 and Alda Rd lookout. If the cranes stuck around last night they were illuminated...
by Bethany Ostrom | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hey all, We had our first fallgration flight (fall migration Sandhill Crane aerial survey) on Thursday the 30 th . We did not see any Sandhill Cranes in the 80-mile stretch of river and surrounding landscape. This isn’t unusual at all as normal behavior in the fall is...
by Bethany Ostrom | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hey all! Ope! Hope I didn’t spook ya (or should I say Whoop ya!) with this out-of-the-Boo blogpost—but I wanted to keep y’all in the Whoop (I mean loop) that we’re kicking off fall crane flights this week! The last few fall migrations have been interesting here along...
by Bethany Ostrom | Jul 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Every mid-May through mid-July since 2015, the Crane Trust science team has been conducting breeding bird surveys throughout all the habitat types found on Crane Trust property. This year we conducted 87 surveys and found 110 different bird species! There were many...
by Bethany Ostrom | Apr 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today we estimated 35,500 +/- 9,700 Sandhill Cranes between Overton and Chapman, NE. The vast majority are hanging out between Gibbon and Highway 10 to Minden. We expect a lot to move on today and tomorrow with strong winds from the south forecasted. These winds will...
