BARABOO, Wis. - You may have seen sandhill cranes before, but not many people have had the pleasure of seeing a whooping crane in person. Whooping cranes nearly went extinct in the late 1800s and ...

The white bird, named for its "whooping" call, is one of the rarest in North America and was among the first to be protected ...

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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” ...

Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, saltwater intrusion and bird flu are putting pressure on the species’ recovery ...

SAN ANTONIO — As endangered whooping cranes begin to migrate to the Texas Gulf Coast, thousands of gallons of fresh water from just outside San Antonio will start flowing down south to meet them.

While Texas is renowned for its king-sized cities—Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, to name a few—there’s a lot more to this historic state than just urban sprawl. Along the Texas shoreline, visitors ...

A pair of sarus cranes (Antigone antigone) was observed preying on a grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) chick at the Dhanauri Wetlands, in west Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, beating ...

AI-powered identification and behavioral analysis will help protect migratory bird species, including the Siberian crane, around China’s Poyang Lake ...