A Comanche-led conservation project takes on an increasingly urgent mission: protecting the birds revered by many tribes ...

Only about 830 whooping cranes exist in the world but they used to number in the tens of thousands in North America alone. Longtime Florida whooping crane sent away, leaving only 4 in the state ...

Tex laid a viable egg, producing a whooping crane named Gee Whiz. That bird produced 26 of his own offspring, which in turn resulted in about 130 more chicks.

Crane Trust officials say they've never seen such a big jump in numbers of cranes arriving in Nebraska for the spring migration. Whooping cranes appear with deluge of birds in Nebraska Skip to ...

The recent deaths of an estimated 1,500 sandhill cranes in Indiana due to bird flu has increased concerns for endanagered whooping cranes, including those that nest in Wisconsin.

Other countries have seen mass crane die-offs caused by bird flu, from Israel to Japan to Hungary, where an at least 10,000 and possibly 20,000 Eurasian cranes died in winter 2023. Featured Weekly Ad ...

Since 2011, a state program began reintroducing whooping cranes into a conservation area in Southwest Louisiana at a time when the birds were nonexistent in the state.

A whooping crane shut down the hunting season opener for sandhill cranes at Hackberry Flat on Saturday.With only around 500 in existence, state wildlife officials did not want to risk ...

The whooping crane is the tallest flying bird in North America. It has a wingspan of seven to eight feet. But these birds almost didn’t make it. In 1950, Louisiana lost its last whooping crane.

She said the costume has a helmet and visor so the bird can’t see any human face, wings with black tips, black boots and, on one arm, there’s a realistic-looking whooping crane puppet head.

One of the rarest birds in North America made an unexpected stop in Wilmette this week. A nearly 1-year-old whooping crane making her first migration north to Wisconsin lost track of her four ...