The whooping crane population that winters in Texas, the migratory flock, was reduced to 15 or 16 birds in 1941. That’s all there were. They have slowly increased, maybe there are 550 today, but ...

Over 400 species of birds visit this renowned wildlife refuge throughout the year, including the last wild migratory flock of ...

George Archibald, co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, will give a talk about his work in saving the world's ...

The whooping crane (Grus americana), the tallest bird in North America, has existed near the brink of extinction for decades, ...

A recent study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has issued an urgent warning. New findings point to rapid extinction ...

Whooping crane 1018 was relocated from an Osceola County neighborhood to Louisiana on March 6, 2025. He will live in a colony with dozens of other whooping cranes.

The whooping crane was immediately assessed by veterinarians and appeared to be in good health. “She was probably a little dehydrated, but other than that she was good,” Lacy said.

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 ...

Lacy said whooping cranes were put on the endangered species list in 1973 and that in the 1940s and 50s there were only 15 of them in the world, mostly on the Texas coast. There are now about 850 ...

Whooping cranes nearly went extinct in the mid-1900s but now number about 830, including 69 in a subpopulation that mostly breeds in Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, less than 100 whooping cranes live in the state, International Crane Foundation Eastern Flyways Program director Anne Lacy told the Journal Sentinel last year. Advertisement More in U.S.

"We are very pleased that whooping and sandhill cranes will now grace roadways all around the state and country," Dr. Rich Beilfuss, president and CEO of the International Crane Foundation, said ...