The Platte River Crane Migration

Nebraska sits directly in the path of one of the most spectacular wildlife migrations in North America. Each spring, roughly 500,000 sandhill cranes and an estimated 80% of the world's population of whooping cranes stop along the Platte River in central Nebraska on their migration north. The cranes arrive in late February and stage for several weeks, feeding in the cornfields by day and roosting in the shallow river channels by night. The Platte River valley at dawn during peak migration, with hundreds of thousands of cranes rising from the water simultaneously, is considered one of the great wildlife spectacles in the world.

Source: Nebraska Game & Parks Commission