Ostrom said the Crane Trust and other organizations are working with the U.S. Fish and Wild and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission to closely monitor the migration for dead or sick birds.

Many of the fallen birds could be seen on the frozen ice sheet ... Some 30 of Indiana’s 92 counties have reported sandhill crane deaths, including Lake and Porter counties, those closest ...

resulting in a large number of sandhill crane deaths in Greene, Jackson, Jasper, LaPorte, Newton, Starke, and Union counties. If you find sick or dead wild birds, please report them at on.in.gov ...

The heartbreaking predicament came to light when Louisiana whooping crane researchers discovered one of their birds had lost her mate of “several years” while nesting in Southeast Texas.