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

Norwood Park resident Tarik Shahzad spotted 296 species of birds this year, breaking the Cook County Birding Big Year record ...

Since then, these endangered animals have taken a step back from the brink of extinction. Captive breeding programs have boosted their numbers, and successful reintroduction efforts have raised the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On an isolated stretch of Texas coastline, conservation groups have acquired more than 3,000 acres of nearly pristine prairie to preserve as habitat for endangered whooping cranes, one of the rarest ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it will stop supporting the use of ultralight aircraft to help young whooping cranes migrate from Wisconsin to Florida each fall.

NECEDAH - Eight whooping cranes, led by ultralight aircraft, took flight Wednesday headed for Florida as part of a project designed to establish a second migratory flock of the endangered birds. The ...

Two endangered whooping cranes found dead in fields near Saskatoon this fall tested positive for avian influenza, the first ...

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 ...

The Annual Festival of the Cranes celebrates the return of thousands of Sandhill Cranes and rare Whooping Cranes to Wheeler ...

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” ...