Only about 830 whooping cranes exist in the world but they used to number in the tens of thousands in North America alone.

Whooping crane. Please credit: Ryan Hagerty / USFWS. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million ...

“In March of 1950, the last remaining whooping crane in Louisiana was captured at White Lake and transported to Aransas ...

Whooping crane on Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas (credit: S. Hillebrand, USFWS). Conservation projects around the Refuge offer a particularly good return-on-investment for many species.

Like many other migratory birds, the bill says sandhill cranes are protected by federal law. The proposed bill says the U.S.

A number of rare and endangered bird species can be seen in Louisiana, if you know how to find them. Here are the species and ...

Under plans finalized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Aransas National ... of endangered supporting species like the whooping crane and Attwater's prairie chicken.

Crane Trust officials say they've never seen such a big jump in numbers of cranes arriving in Nebraska for the spring ...

Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed for ...

The whooping crane was listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened in 1967 and endangered in 1970. The agency said the bird’s name probably originated from the loud, single-note ...