As pilot Jim Bredy banks hard for another pass, he and his two passengers press their faces against the glass, squinting to spot familiar white smudges on the ground—adult whooping cranes—with ...

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 ...

This spring I had a wonderful opportunity to film a pair of whooping cranes (grus americana) that had set up shop and was nesting in a small cattail wetland on private property. When I arrived I ...

The city of Port Aransas, Texas is gearing up to celebrate one of North America's most iconic migratory birds later this ...

For the past 20 years, the protected lands in north Alabama have served as the winter home to thousands of sandhill cranes and more than a dozen whooping cranes — rare, endangered birds ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR): Whooping cranes, one of America’s most endangered birds, have recently been sighted in Rice and Le Sueur counties in ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been planning to weaken whooping crane protections since early 2021, according to federal documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity.

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — Since fall began in North Dakota, we’ve had some colder mornings this past week. So have the birds, ...

The annual migration of sandhill cranes brings bird-watchers in droves to see the tall birds up close, but also the chance to catch a glimpse of the rare and endangered whooping cranes that ...

The annual migration of sandhill cranes brings bird-watchers in droves to see the tall birds up close, but also the chance to catch a glimpse of the rare and endangered whooping cranes that ...