With only about 20 whooping cranes left globally in the 1940s, the species once seemed close to vanishing. Today, nearly 600 ...

Whooping cranes faced extinction, with only twenty-one birds remaining in 1941. Intensive conservation efforts have increased ...

A whooping crane's appearance northeast of Calgary is being celebrated by local birdwatchers, with the rare sighting of North ...

Knowing how animals use their environments to survive and thrive is a key challenge for predicting how global climate change will affect wildlife. A global collaborative study of four species of crane ...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas — 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, ...

The Endangered Wildlife Trust has partnered with the International Crane Foundation will lead South Africa's National Crane ...

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, but seems to have turned a ...

A rare bird species that once vanished from Louisiana is making a steady comeback as four more whooping cranes were released into the wild last month. The release of the young birds, which were raised ...

Conservation groups fear the Trump administration's changes to the Endangered Species Act could destroy habitat for the ...

One of the most spectacular bird migration events is the movement of massive flocks of Sandhill Cranes between their wintering and breeding grounds. Indeed this is an event for the ages, as fossilized ...