Only about 830 whooping cranes exist in the world but they used to number in the tens of thousands in North America alone.

BARABOO, Wis. (WMTV) - Chances are high that you’ve seen sandhill cranes roaming around your neighborhood, but few people have had the opportunity to see one species of the bird in Wisconsin.

This reintroduction effort began in 2011. Since then, Louisiana’s wild whooping crane population has gone from zero to 80, and that doesn’t include the new chicks. “We’re starting to see ...

Whooping cranes are the rarest of the world’s crane species, with just 506 individuals in the Texas population and 79 individuals in the eastern population. When the snowy-white birds are alarmed, ...

According to the International Whooping Crane Recovery Plan, this population will need to increase to 1,000 before the species can be downgraded from endangered to threatened under the Endangered ...