A fire near nesting areas in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park has put fresh focus on the precarious recovery of the only ...

Conservation groups fear the Trump administration's changes to the Endangered Species Act could destroy habitat for the ...

It's too soon to say what the long-term impacts of earlier wildfires might be on the world’s only natural wild migratory ...

Conservationists express concern over weakened federal protections for wetlands, threatening the survival of endangered ...

The species once dwindled to about 50 birds nationwide, but today, the population has grown to more than 500.

The birds breed in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park before migrating roughly 2,500 miles to the Texas coast. The report ...

GUEYDAN, La. - For more than sixty years, Louisiana lost one of its most majestic birds, the whooping crane. Whooping cranes are North America's tallest flying birds, standing about five feet tall.

A record number of whooping cranes — 557 — were spotted this winter around the Texas coast, the highest count ever recorded for the endangered birds that migrate from Canada each year, per a new ...

Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on ...

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.

While Texas is renowned for its king-sized cities—Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, to name a few—there’s a lot more to this historic state than just urban sprawl. Along the Texas shoreline, visitors ...

Five feet tall, with a 7-foot wingspan, the whooping crane is a Pleistocene relic that has somehow survived into the 21st century. Slammed by hunting and habitat loss, whoopers hit a low of 22 ...