Surveys use scientific sampling to estimate populations. Our spring sharp-tailed grouse lek counts, for example, give a ...

It’s a 2,500-mile journey. Compared to sandbar-crowding sandhill cranes, it’s a rarity to view a migrating whooping crane. In contrast, there is no mistaking the sandhill crane migration.

In the end, it failed. But biologists, thankfully, did not give up. The stately, majestic whooping crane has never been a common bird in North America.

Rewards totaling $6,000 are being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever shot an endangered whooping crane more than a year ago. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife ...

Four whooping crane couples, which mate for life, raised a total of five chicks on private property, where owners are involved in the reintroduction efforts, in Acadia, Allen and Jefferson ...

If you have information to share about the shooting of the whooping crane in Mamou, contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at (985) 882-3756 or the Louisiana Department of Wildlife.

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.

Whooping cranes are one of the rarest birds in the world. In the 1940s, they declined to fewer than two dozen individuals due to unregulated shooting and loss of nesting habitat. This drastic ...

LOUISIANA (AP)- A man accused of killing one of Louisiana’s oldest whooping cranes is scheduled to change his plea and be sentenced in the state where more of the endangered cranes have been ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Federal officials announced on Monday that Kansas will receive part of a huge disbursement of grant cash to help improve the state’s natural landscape and waterways. The U.S ...

The whooping crane population wintering at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge reached a record high of 557 birds during the 2024-25 season. The population has shown steady growth, with a growth rate ...

Conservationists believe it's something to celebrate. After all, in the 1940s there was about 14 Whooping Cranes total. The Crane Trust believes this event shows all their work is paying off.