You won’t have to strain your neck to get a gander at some of Tucson’s latest winter visitors. A record number of sandhill cranes — about 42,200 of the migratory birds — have descended on southeast ...

Sandhill cranes — enormous birds that have soared Earth’s skies since the Pleistocene — are finally showing up by the thousands in the Sulphur Springs Valley south of Willcox after making only spotty ...

WOOD RIVER — The official sandhill crane season doesn’t begin for 10 days or so, but about 35,00 cranes are already here. They spent the winter close to the Crane Trust Nature and Visitor Center.