2024 Annual Midwest Crane Count

Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

April 26, 2024

Friday Feathered Feature

Many bird watchers look forward to the annual crane count coordinated by the International Crane Foundation. This year, it was held on April 13.

Photo by Gary Shackelford

Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

March 1, 2024

Friday Feathered Feature

Living with cranes, sharing their space

Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

March 1, 2024

Friday Feathered Feature

For the past ten years, our first sight and sound of Sandhill Cranes at Fair Meadows has been a gentle unison call and the graceful glide of a pair descending into the sedge meadow south of our house.

Photo by Gary Shackelford

Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

July 14, 2022

Friday Feathered Feature

Whooping Crane

Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

July 14, 2022

Friday Feathered Feature

Pre-European expansion, there were an estimated 10,000 Whooping Cranes across North America; by the 1940s they reached near extinction when only 20 remained in a single migrating population.

Photo by Tom Lynn/International Crane Foundation