A Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries program has helped restore the once nearly extinct whooping crane population.

Conservationists at the International Crane Foundation suit up in elaborate disguises each summer, spending 12-hour shifts ...

The 10 fledged chicks surpass the record of eight recorded in 2022.

Hear the remarkable tale of the bird that came within a hair’s breadth of extinction. Find out how the whooping crane’s ...

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.

About 540 whopping cranes wintered in the vicinity of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge during the 2025-26 season, a count that is similar to the previous year's. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

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

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.

Canada's largest national park is home to a bison herd, endangered whooping cranes, and the world’s largest beaver dam.

A whooping crane's appearance northeast of Calgary is being celebrated by local birdwatchers, with the rare sighting of North America's tallest bird being hailed as a chapter in the iconic animal's ...

In 1976, ornithologist George Archibald began an unusual daily ritual, dancing beside a whooping crane named Tex in an ...