GIBBON, Neb. (AP) — Several hundred people attended a festival this weekend to learn more about the migrating cranes that will visit Nebraska in the next few weeks.

Many families attended the event at the Rowe Sanctuary on the Platte River on Saturday.

The sanctuary’s education director Keanna Leonard says the event offered several activities to teach about the cranes.

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes feed in farm fields between Grand Island and Kearney during the day and resting in shallow waters of the Platte each night for several weeks. The cranes then continue their journeys to arctic breeding grounds.

Jen Rodriguez brought her two sons to the sanctuary, so they could learn more and get out of the house.