Following the species' comeback, new pressures are converging on their wintering habitat along the Texas coast.

In the wake of an unprecedented mass die-off of sandhill cranes due to bird flu in Indiana, wildlife specialists are expressing heightened concerns over the potential impact of the disease to birds as ...

It's the season to be on the lookout for enormous white birds, otherwise known as whooping cranes, as they begin their migration to their wintering grounds. As many as 230 of the endangered birds are ...

Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, is one of the rarest in North America and ...

Whooping cranes are in the midst of their spring migration and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota over the next several weeks. Anyone seeing these birds as they move ...

Once on the brink of extinction, the birds now have a new sanctuary on an isolated stretch of the Gulf Coast between Corpus ...

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn stalks and shallow water searching for corn, berries, ...

MILWAUKEE — An effort started a decade ago to return the whooping crane to its original numbers in eastern North America seemed outlandish. Workers in Wisconsin would don crane-like costumes to raise ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The annual migration of juvenile whooping cranes from Wisconsin to Florida has been halted in Alabama after a complaint was filed with a federal agency. Operation Migration ...

Study of the migration stopovers, breeding behavior, and survival rates of the endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) between fall 1981-83 and spring 1983-84. Distribution pattern of ...

Two crane species, whooping cranes (Grus americana) and sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis), overwinter along the Texas Gulf Coast. Periodic, extreme drought conditions have prompted concerns that ...

departure from Grand Dyke Road at "the bend" between the tower and the Necedah Refuge boundary. The departure could start as early as sunrise (6:45 a.m.). Wind or rain will keep planes and birds on ...