2026 Crane Season at Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary

Greater than 50 years in the past, Audubon, a grass roots volunteer led group started internet hosting what would change into generally known as the Crane Pageant—recognizing the return of Sandhill Cranes to the Platte River as one of the outstanding chook 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 planet.

Right now, Crane Season at Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary spans March and early April and consists of 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 participating packages designed to counterpoint our visitors’ experiences. Whether or not you’re a first-time customer or a lifelong birder, we invite you to affix us this spring to be taught, rejoice, and expertise one in all 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 packages that discover the cultural, inventive, and scientific dimensions of migration.

One custom that is still from the unique Crane Pageant is our annual Speaker Collection. Annually, the sequence highlights necessary 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 sequence options participating, in-person lectures on subjects starting from Whooping Crane restoration and Platte River water administration to wetland conservation, storytelling and poetry.

Our objective is to reinforce what guests witness on the river every morning and night—providing deeper perception into the science, partnerships, and fervour behind crane conservation. In any case, the cranes know methods to 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 restricted.

The place can folks discover extra data?

Classes happen on Fridays and Saturdays, March 6 by way of 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 could be discovered here.

We sit up for welcoming you to Crane Season 2026