Sandhill Crane Festival 2024 Nebraska. Now, as never before, you can experience the wonder of north america’s great sandhill crane migration. The lesser sandhill crane is a bird of the high arctic, nesting across the northern reaches of canada and alaska.

Travel to grand island in. The guided crane experience provides guests with the opportunity to observe thousands of cranes as they fly into the platte river at dusk, and lift off from the river at dawn.