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
2024 Annual Midwest Crane Count
Living with cranes, sharing their space
Sandhill Crane Nesting at Goose Pond and Wildland 2022
Annual Midwest Crane Count - Columbia County Audubon Lands
The Annual Midwest Crane Count, which originated in Columbia County in 1976, has evolved to include 100 counties with over 2,500 volunteers each year. It provides the International Crane Foundation with valuable data used to monitor the eastern population of Sandhill Cranes and Whooping Cranes.
Photo by Mick Thompson
Sandhill Crane
Here come the cranes. In short order, Wisconsin will be swamped with cranes, and those cranes will stake an early claim to swamps. Aldo Leopold said of crane marshes: “a sense of time lies thick and heavy in such a place. Forging through the ice, these sandhills fly as they have for millennia.
Photo by Mick Thompson
