The Fish and Wildlife Service this week reported steady growth in the population of the rarest crane in the world. The endangered whooping crane has seen a promising expansion of its flock after the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Just ten years ago there were about half as many whooping cranes migrating to South Texas for the winter. Last year, they spent their time at the Aransas National Wildlife ...

Thousands of sandhill and whooping cranes are stopping over at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed over 20 years. Now he’s moved on. This particular snowbird, ...

The Dallas Zoo’s mission includes a focus on saving whooping cranes, an endeavor it recently pushed forward by releasing into its natural habitat the first-ever whooping crane chick hatched at its ...

When it comes to whooping cranes, Emily Dickinson was right. "Hope is the thing with feathers." In 1942, there were only 21 whooping cranes known to be in existence — six in Louisiana and 15 in Texas.

Three yearling whooping cranes that had been trying to make their way "home" since March finally returned to Wisconsin after three months in central, west-central and southwestern Michigan. Cranes 3, ...