We were 800 feet up in the air, flying in a helicopter with an international team of scientists over the vast boreal forest encompassing Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, when one of them shouted ...

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.

Jan. 4—Echoing through the air, the call of thousands of cranes — some endangered — at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge serves as a beacon to bird watchers. For the past 20 years, the protected lands ...

This episode shines a spotlight on the endangered whooping crane. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has teamed up with artists across Louisiana to shine a spotlight on the endangered ...

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Foundation will host a Whooping Crane Art Expo in February. Adult artists and students in East Baton Rouge Parish are invited to participate in an art contest that ...

WASHINGTON - Relying on a plan that inspired a Hollywood movie, the Fish and Wildlife Service hopes to re-establish a migratory flock of whooping cranes that would summer in Wisconsin and winter in ...

Cranes are large omnivorous birds known for their vocalizations and for performing elaborate mating dances. There are 15 species of cranes in the family Gruidae. With long legs and a large torso, ...

When it comes to whooping cranes, Emily Dickinson was right. "Hope is the thing with feathers." In 1942, there were only 21 whooping cranes known to be in existence — six in Louisiana and 15 in Texas.

Five feet tall, with a 7-foot wingspan, the whooping crane is a Pleistocene relic that has somehow survived into the 21st century. Slammed by hunting and habitat loss, whoopers hit a low of 22 ...