Wildlife officials urge Oklahomans to report endangered whooping crane sightings as the birds migrate through the state this fall.

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. Officials announced Friday ...

MILWAUKEE — An effort started a decade ago to return the whooping crane to its original numbers in eastern North America seemed outlandish. Workers in Wisconsin would don crane-like costumes to raise ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whooping cranes are in the midst of their spring migration and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota over the next several weeks. Anyone seeing these birds as they move ...

Endangered whooping cranes are migrating earlier in spring and later in fall, according to a newly published study by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...

Sandhill Cranes preen in their habitat. These cranes and Whooping Cranes will be the subject of a conservation talk at 5 p.m. Thursday at Wild Birds Unlimited in Greenwood. Provided by Indiana ...

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 ...