Citizen scientists track crane population

A sandhill crane looks and sounds like a modern day dinosaur.
Lesser sandhill cranes in Homer, Alaska.
(Photo courtesy of Nina Faust)They stand about three feet tall and have a six-foot wing span. They use their sharp four-inch beak for probing in the dirt and catching insects and small mammals.
And sometimes, they use that long beak for defense.
“That beak is a very very lethal weapon,” says Faust.
That’s Nina Faust. She’s the co-founder of Kachemak Crane Watch, a non-pr