People migrate to watch cranes
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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.
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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.”
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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.
