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.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma slowly flying and gliding into the area. For myself and many other people, ...
ACADIA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The radio receiver is tuned to a tiny transmitter on the leg of a whooping crane. “Generally, the closer you get, the louder the signal is,” says Sara Zimorski. Zimorski is ...
Whooping cranes have made their annual flight to South Texas, and tickets are now on sale for the Whooping Crane Festival scheduled for Feb. 19, 2026, through Feb. 22, 2026, in Port Aransas. Since ...
Mark Bidwell with the Canadian Wildlife Service says the deaths in Saskatchewan mark the first time avian flu has been ...
WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” call, ...