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

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 ...

Partners at the International Crane Foundation and the Conservation Fund have secured permanent protection of more than 3,300 ...

Operation Migration, the Canadian-based nonprofit group that has led the migrations for 15 years, has opposed the end of ultralights, saying the program has helped cranes survive. But Fish and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Endangered whooping cranes are migrating earlier in spring and later in fall, according to a newly published study by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

KEARNEY - As ferocious north winds blew across the prairie this week, six rare whooping cranes rode out the storm on a wetland at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Prairie Dog Waterfowl Protection ...

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 ...