Rebecca Legel

Staff positions

  • Staff Writer
  • Photographer

Photos (3)

  • Photo from March 14, 2008

    (March 14, 2008)

    Sandhill cranes circle over the Platte River near Kearney, Neb., where they roosted overnight on Saturday. There were 60,000 cranes in the region as of the weekly bird count on March 6.

  • Photo from March 14, 2008

    (March 14, 2008)

    Junior Robyn Allen looks for cranes and other birds through a fieldscope on Saturday at Rowe Sanctuary. “Seeing the cranes for the first time was extremely memorable,” Allen said. “Like getting an intimate view of a large family — seeing how a social unit interacts, even deducing individual gestures.”

  • Photo from March 14, 2008

    (March 14, 2008)

    Trip coordinator Bill Allen watches Sandhill cranes ride thermal winds over cornfields near Rowe Sanctuary on Saturday. He has taken students on a Sandhill crane-watching trip for the past three years.