A whooping crane that never quite fit in during this fall’s human-led migration to Florida was found dead outside its pen this week, apparently killed and partially eaten by a bobcat. The bird was ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) – A conservation effort involving an ultralight plane leading endangered whooping cranes south for the winter has been forced to stop short of its Florida destination, with officials ...

Whooping cranes are in the midst of their spring migration and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota over the next several weeks. Anyone seeing these birds as they move ...

KEARNEY - Some of the rarest birds in the world recently made their annual fall migration visit to the central Platte Valley, bringing along their 2008 offspring. A record 20 whooping cranes were ...

KEARNEY - As ferocious north winds blew across the prairie this week, six rare whooping cranes rode out the storm on a wetland at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Prairie Dog Waterfowl Protection ...

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn stalks and shallow water searching for corn, berries, ...

Sandhill Cranes preen in their habitat. These cranes and Whooping Cranes will be the subject of a conservation talk at 5 p.m. Thursday at Wild Birds Unlimited in Greenwood. Provided by Indiana ...

SEADRIFT — Estimates that a record 250-plus endangered whooping cranes are expected to begin their annual autumn migration to the Texas coast usually would be cause for celebration among backers of ...

Study of the migration stopovers, breeding behavior, and survival rates of the endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) between fall 1981-83 and spring 1983-84. Distribution pattern of ...

departure from Grand Dyke Road at "the bend" between the tower and the Necedah Refuge boundary. The departure could start as early as sunrise (6:45 a.m.). Wind or rain will keep planes and birds on ...

It has been another interesting fall season. Fall colors, although scarce, finally arrived, but the predicted low temperatures this week will likely end the display. Most of us living in Illinois look ...