Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
Lightning forks across the purple sky as hundreds of thousands of cranes roost in the shallows of the Platte River, Nebraska. (Randy Olson/National Geographic)
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