As I post this, the camera is revealing an abundance of geese and waterfowl.
From NGS:
"For six weeks each year, swirling gray masses of sandhill cranes descend on south-central Nebraska each year, heralding the arrival of spring and the largest gathering of cranes in the world. The Platte River Valley becomes a six-week pit stop from late February to early April for a half million sandhill cranes journeying north to their Arctic breeding grounds."
"Sandhills are the most common of all the world's cranes. A fossil from the Miocene Epoch, some ten million years ago, was found to be structurally the same as the modern sandhill crane. Today, these large birds are found predominately in North America. They range south to Mexico and Cuba, and as far west as Siberia.
Migratory subspecies of sandhill cranes breed in the Northern U.S., Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. Each winter they undertake long southern journeys to wintering grounds in Florida, Texas, Utah, Mexico, and California. En route, more than three-fourths of all sandhill cranes use migratory staging areas in a single 75-mile (120-kilometer) stretch along Nebraska's Platte River."
"The mid-continental population of sandhill cranes winter in sunny New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico before converging on Nebraska's Platte River Valley each spring, creating one of the world's greatest avian migrations. Their staging area, between Grand Island and Kearney, allows the cranes to fatten up on corn over six weeks before continuing their migration to breeding grounds in Alaska, Canada, and Siberia (not shown)."
Link to the Sandhills Crane Cam:
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/cranecam/
Thanks for the share.......
