Many people were amazed and pleasantly surprised to see thousands of sandhill cranes gathered near the Wisconsin River in Baraboo this past weekend, Nov. 11-12. The area's protective wetlands and ...

Sandhill cranes forage for waste grain in a farm field near Baraboo. The sandhill crane descending on the Wisconsin countryside is a beautiful thing. Its gray wings are long and graceful, and it doesn ...

MILWAUKEE - In fall, Wisconsin gains all kinds of northern visitors avoiding harsher winters in Canada, but it's also a time when our summer birds head south. One summer staple of the Wisconsin ...

DODGE COUNTY (WLUK) -- They're being called one of the best conservation success stories in the state. Experts say Wisconsin sandhill cranes were hunted to the brink of extinction, but now, their ...

BARABOO, Wis. - You may have seen sandhill cranes before, but not many people have had the pleasure of seeing a whooping crane in person. Whooping cranes nearly went extinct in the late 1800s and ...

For the third time in 14 years, a bill to open a sandhill crane hunting season in Wisconsin has been introduced in the Legislature. The previous proposals failed to advance to the governor, even ...

A pair of sandhill cranes contemplates roosting at Neenah Creek for the night. Update: Tuesday, a legislative study group recommended creating a sandhill crane harvest and compensating corn growers ...

When the new legislature meets it should take recommendations of the Legislative Council’s Study Committee on sandhill cranes with a grain of salt. The committee was established with the strong ...

(WLUK) -- Admirers of Wisconsin's cranes can now show their support on their license plates. Cranes of Wisconsin is the latest specialty license plate design to be offered by the state Department of ...

The sandhill crane descending on the Wisconsin countryside is a beautiful thing. Its gray wings are long and graceful, and it doesn’t swoop — it floats in, like a cloud slipping from the sky. Its ...