Greater than 50 years in the past, Audubon, a grass roots volunteer led group started internet hosting what would turn out to be often known as the Crane Competition—recognizing the return of Sandhill Cranes to the Platte River as some of the outstanding hen migration spectacles on Earth. What started within the early Seventies as a small gathering of passionate birds and conservation advocates has since grown right into a nationally acknowledged ecotourism vacation spot and a month-long celebration of one of many best wildlife migrations on the earth.
Immediately, Crane Season at Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary spans March and early April and contains six weeks of guided crane viewing alternatives alongside the Platte River. Along with providing world-class viewing experiences, Rowe Sanctuary companions with scientists, conservation leaders, artists, and educators to current partaking applications designed to complement our friends’ experiences. Whether or not you’re a first-time customer or a lifelong birder, we invite you to hitch us this spring to study, rejoice, and expertise one among North America’s best wildlife migrations. Rowe Sanctuary presents courses on crane habits and ecology, lectures on conservation efforts throughout Nebraska and the Nice Plains, and particular applications that discover the cultural, inventive, and scientific dimensions of migration.
One custom that continues to be from the unique Crane Competition is our annual Speaker Collection. Every year, the collection highlights vital conservation points and present instances a few of the devoted people working domestically and globally to guard cranes and their habitat.
This 12 months’s speaker collection options partaking, in-person lectures on matters starting from Whooping Crane restoration and Platte River water administration to wetland conservation, storytelling and poetry.
Our purpose is to boost what guests witness on the river every morning and night—providing deeper perception into the science, partnerships, and fervour behind crane conservation. In spite of everything, the cranes know how you can placed on a present; we hope our audio system assist inform the story behind it.
Price and registration:
All Speaker Collection lectures are free, however pre-registration is required as area is proscribed.
The place can individuals discover extra data?
Periods happen on Fridays and Saturdays, March 6 by April 4, 2026, with most shows held from 2:30–3:15 p.m
Full schedules, presentation descriptions, and registration details for the Speaker Collection and all Crane Season programming will be discovered here.
We look ahead to welcoming you to Crane Season 2026
