A record number of whooping cranes — 557 — were spotted this winter around the Texas coast, the highest count ever recorded ...

Cranes are large omnivorous birds that are known to perform elaborate mating dances and vocalizations. Many species exist, ...

Anyone expecting sweeping, dramatic music as a rescued sandhill crane left its crate Wednesday at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area and soared into the crystal clear sky to join its tribe w… ...

Wild cranes were once common inhabitants of Iowa bogs and marshlands. During the 1800s, crane flocks containing hundreds, and even thousands of birds, were documented across northern Iowa.

In Louisiana, a self-sustaining population of whooping cranes would require about 120 birds with 30 reproducing pairs to survive in the wild for a decade. "This is the point of what we do," Dunn ...

In the wild, wattled cranes are considered vulnerable. “They are heavily dependent on wetlands in Africa. You can see in their habitat they have a water system that flows through and mimics what ...

Michael Elizabeth Sakas/CPR News Sandhill cranes call the wetlands of the San Luis Valley home as they migrate north. A few are spotted through a birding scope on March 11, 2022. But, for some, it ...

More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness.. Volunteers in ...