Sandhill Crane "Dancing," Idaho

Watching the Cranes Dance


Growing up a quarter mile from Cramer’s Field in Fairbanks, the first bird call WC learned and the first migratory bird WC learned to recognize was the Sandhill Crane. The cranes stage at Creamer’s – now Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge – in impressive numbers, sometimes more than 2,000 birds at a time. Flocks of…