Thousands of Cranes Take Flight in One of Earth's Last Great Migrations | Nat Geo Wild

Around 600,000 Sandhill cranes flock to Nebraska’s Central Platte River Valley each spring in one of the world’s largest and oldest remaining bird migrations.
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There the cranes thrive on corn, the most abundant local food source. The species is incredibly resilient, but they face a loss of wetland habitat and the effects of climate change – so their resilience cannot be taken for granted.

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