Hear the remarkable tale of the bird that came within a hair’s breadth of extinction. Find out how the whooping crane’s ...

In June 2026, people on social media claimed that the Trump administration was removing habitat protections from the endangered whooping crane. The claim appeared to be based on a recent Bloomberg Law ...

DECATUR, Ala. — 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, seeds ...

HARLINGEN, Texas — Wildlife biologists believe a whooping crane that got separated from its parents while learning to migrate is spending a second winter lost and in the company of friendly sandhill ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) – A conservation effort involving an ultralight plane leading endangered whooping cranes south for the winter has been forced to stop short of its Florida destination, with officials ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the last wild, self-sustaining population of whooping cranes grows, conservation groups are ensuring the endangered birds have ...

CORNWALL, Vt. -- A rare whooping crane is spending the summer in Vermont after mysteriously veering 800 miles off course on its migration toward the Midwest. One of only about 400 such birds in the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The annual migration of juvenile whooping cranes from Wisconsin to Florida has been halted in Alabama after a complaint was filed with a federal agency. Operation Migration ...

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

SEADRIFT — Estimates that a record 250-plus endangered whooping cranes are expected to begin their annual autumn migration to the Texas coast usually would be cause for celebration among backers of ...

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 ...

BIRDMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. 1. Whooping cranes past and present / John B. French, Sarah J. Converse, Jane E. Austin -- 2.