Kuyt's excursion marked a major step in the now decades-long effort to save the whooping crane, begun by the National ... a report came from a fire helicopter flying over a virtually inaccessible ...

The sarus crane holds the title of the tallest flying bird, standing up to 5.9 feet (1.80 meters) tall. These elegant birds are native to wetlands in South Asia and Australia. The whooping crane ...

In 1954, an eight-year-old George Archibald was sitting in a one-room school in Nova Scotia when he heard a CBC radio program about whooping cranes in Northern Canada. It was a dramatization ...

Sandhill cranes are the most numerous of the crane species in the United States, drawing tens of thousands of tourists annually to festivals and bird-watching excursions across the Midwest. The ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been planning to weaken whooping crane protections since early 2021, according to federal documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity.

a recording of a contact call that crane parents make for their chicks. Whooping cranes were almost extinct — until Canadian ornithologist George Archibald learned to dance with them In the ...

Both the whooping crane and key deer are at severe risk from sea ... which killed more than 10% of the entire population in 2016. The only wild, free-flying whopping crane population winters along the ...

The guard call of sandhill cranes rings through Steuben County skies as the recently frozen world returns to life.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas — Thousands of people from across the world have gathered in Port Aransas for a rare opportunity to observe the endangered whooping crane during the 28th annual Whooping ...

Two whooping cranes, the first of the year, have also been reported. “We did confirm them,” Krohn said. “We can say the whooping crane migration has started.” Several species of ducks ...