Flightless species of birds (such as ostriches, which are the largest living birds) tend to outsize any of the largest birds ...

I had a wonderful opportunity to film a pair of whooping cranes (grus americana) that had set up shop and was nesting in a small cattail wetland on private property. When I arrived I ...

The city of Port Aransas, Texas is gearing up to celebrate one of North America's most iconic migratory birds later this ...

Daphne Smith Moland felt disappointed the first time she saw a whooping crane at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, but the ...

Birdwatchers are amazed to discover the amenities and the large flocks of various species when they visit Phelps County.

Six young whooping cranes were released Oct. 29 at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in Dodge County, Wis. The cranes are part ...

“It’s appalling that the Biden administration is considering weakening protections for the whooping crane when these birds’ home will be underwater within decades because of climate change and ...

But by the following spring, 57 had died, 23 of them on the birds' wintering grounds in ... in the now decades-long effort to save the whooping crane, begun by the National Audubon So­ciety's ...

Five feet tall, with a 7-foot wingspan, the whooping crane is a Pleistocene relic that ... assisted climb to today’s modest peak of 700 birds. “Into Whooperland” is the moving story of ...

Across the United States, bird flu is no longer a concern only for dairy and poultry farms — it’s now knocking on the gates of zoos and wildlife sanctuaries, putting some of the nation’s rarest ...