The whooping cranes’ fragile recovery highlights the need for renewed commitment to safeguarding America’s endangered species.

GUEYDAN, La. - For more than sixty years, Louisiana lost one of its most majestic birds, the whooping crane. Whooping cranes are North America's tallest flying birds, standing about five feet tall.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin ...

Observing whooping cranes in the wild is a lifetime thrill. Wife Joan and I viewed the last wild flock in the world at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Rockport, Texas, ...

Jan. 4—Echoing through the air, the call of thousands of cranes — some endangered — at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge serves as a beacon to bird watchers. For the past 20 years, the protected lands ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma slowly flying and gliding into the area. For myself and many other people, ...

Chris Corpus (left), director of conservation at the Dallas Zoo, George Archibald (center), the co-founder and lead conservationist of the International Crane Foundation, and Carter Crouch, director ...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — 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” ...

ACADIA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The radio receiver is tuned to a tiny transmitter on the leg of a whooping crane. “Generally, the closer you get, the louder the signal is,” says Sara Zimorski. Zimorski is ...

WILMETTE, Ill. (CBS) -- Wildlife experts successfully rescued a whooping crane that was found in a residential rea in north suburban Wilmette this week. Birder Scott Judd shared photos of the rescue ...

A whooping crane that never quite fit in during this fall’s human-led migration to Florida was found dead outside its pen this week, apparently killed and partially eaten by a bobcat. The bird was ...