Flatwater Explains: Sandhill Cranes - Flatwater Free Press

Flatwater Explains: Sandhill Cranes - Flatwater Free Press

Editor’s Note: Flatwater Explains is an occasional series during which FFP reporters explain the people, places and things that make Nebraska what it is, while answering questions that both long-time residents and first-time visitors might have. Each spring, some of Nebraska’s most anticipated visitors descend on the Platte River in droves, both by land and by air: the sandhill cranes and the people who come to look at them. Hundreds of thousand…