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

What are you seeing?” I asked two women standing along the edge of a swamp, binoculars pointed into the distance.

Tall, magnificent birds with long legs and necks, cranes spend most of their lives near the shallow water of swamps, lakes, streams, and ponds to hunt for prey and construct their nests. There are 15 ...

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

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

For the last few years, conservationists have fought a precedent-setting proposal to send excess water from the basin south ...

GUIDE: Discovering Lake Claire. It’s not your regular summer vacation destination, and not for the unseasoned outdoors person ...

The Lady Cranes faced the Kenya Lionesses in November 2023 at the Jomo Kenyatta International Stadium in Kisumu, and let’s just say every Ugandan wishes that story had ended there.

The whooping crane program moved to the biodiversity centre in 2023, and the cranes spend their first year settling into the new environment, not expected to breed during that time.

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, ...

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.

In the 1940s, whooping cranes were on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 20 left. Today there are more than 800. The ICF helped grow their numbers through conservation, ...