A whooping crane's appearance northeast of Calgary is being celebrated by local birdwatchers, with the rare sighting of North ...

With only about 20 whooping cranes left globally in the 1940s, the species once seemed close to vanishing. Today, nearly 600 ...

Conservation groups fear the Trump administration's changes to the Endangered Species Act could destroy habitat for the ...

It's too soon to say what the long-term impacts of earlier wildfires might be on the world’s only natural wild migratory ...

GUEYDAN, La. - For more than sixty years, Louisiana lost one of its most majestic birds, the whooping crane. Whooping cranes are North America's tallest flying birds, standing about five feet tall.

Conservationists express concern over weakened federal protections for wetlands, threatening the survival of endangered ...

Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on ...

BIRDMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. 1. Whooping cranes past and present / John B. French, Sarah J. Converse, Jane E. Austin -- 2.

While Texas is renowned for its king-sized cities—Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, to name a few—there’s a lot more to this historic state than just urban sprawl. Along the Texas shoreline, visitors ...

ACADIA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The radio receiver is tuned to a tiny transmitter on the leg of a whooping crane. “Generally, the closer you get, the louder the signal is,” says Sara Zimorski. Zimorski is ...

Five feet tall, with a 7-foot wingspan, the whooping crane is a Pleistocene relic that has somehow survived into the 21st century. Slammed by hunting and habitat loss, whoopers hit a low of 22 ...

George Archibald is growing tired of telling this story, but to prove history is repeating itself right here at the Dallas Zoo, he'll start from the beginning. It's 1982 and the conservationist is ...