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 ...

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 ...

The whooping crane population wintering at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge reached a record high of 557 birds during the 2024-25 season. The population has shown steady growth, with a growth rate of ...

The Annual Festival of the Cranes celebrates the return of thousands of Sandhill Cranes and rare Whooping Cranes to Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the wake of an unprecedented mass die-off of sandhill cranes due to bird flu in Indiana, wildlife specialists are expressing ...

Since then, these endangered animals have taken a step back from the brink of extinction. Captive breeding programs have boosted their numbers, and successful reintroduction efforts have raised the ...

LINCOLN — Father Hupp Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Thayer County has reopened to the public following a temporary closure that was in place to protect whooping cranes using the area. Six whooping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...