You can’t mistake Sandhill cranes, resplendent with red crowns, wide wing spans, and long legs. Every fall, they come to Kentucky by the thousands, transients pursuing a rest stop as they wing their way to winter feeding grounds in the Mississippi delta, Florida, Mexico and Cuba. They draw their name from their principal migratory feeding ground along the Platte in Nebraska, with its 75-mile stretch … Continue reading Evolution’s triumph: the Sandhill Crane