And in Front Royal, Virginia, Chris Crowe flapped his arms to woo Walnut, a five-foot-tall white-naped crane. Walnut was a graceful, strong-willed bird, if a tad antisocial. That year, she’d ...

She was a white ... male crane, he eased the artificial insemination that helped her produce eight chicks for her vulnerable species. She died last month in the institute’s hospital in Front ...

Walnut, a white-naped crane and internet celebrity ... It dates back to the bird's 2004 arrival at the institute's campus in Front Royal, Virginia. The chick of two wild cranes who had been ...

It dates back to the bird's 2004 arrival at the institute's campus in Front Royal ... in breeding and even attacked male crane suitors. But white-naped cranes are considered vulnerable by the ...

Walnut the crane died Jan. 2 at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute campus in Front ... from white-naped male cranes to artificially inseminate the bird, who had ...

"People are coming in from all over the country to see this bird." The crane was first seen on Dec. 13, according to The Tennessean. It's possible, the newspaper reported, that it could be the ...