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.

Losing nests there would be "devastating" for a species that took decades to recover from the brink of extinction.

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 ...

Tall, graceful, and among the rarest birds on earth. Here are eight things you probably didn't know about this awe-inspiring ...

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.

A record number of whooping cranes — 557 — were spotted this winter around the Texas coast, the highest count ever recorded ...

The whooping crane population wintering at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge reached a record high of 557 birds during the 2024-25 season. The population has shown steady growth, with a growth rate of ...

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, ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 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 ...

Two organizations have acquired land to preserve the expanding whooping crane winter range in South Texas.

George Archibald is growing tired of telling this story, but to prove history is repeating itself right here at the Dallas Zoo, he'll start from the beginning. It's 1982 and the conservationist is ...