the prevalent sandhill crane and the endangered whooping crane. The cranes are depicted among wildflowers in their typical wetland habitat. Get daily updates on the Packers during the season.

If you’ve explored Wisconsin’s wetlands, you’ve probably come across one of two tall birds — the sandhill crane or the whooping crane. Sandhill cranes were on the brink of extinction just ...

"It's really shocking," Lacy said of the crane deaths. "That magnitude of that loss makes us worried not only about sandhill ...

The bill includes a mandatory education course for hunters to ensure they can identify sandhill cranes from endangered whooping cranes, which share the flyway. Another provision seeks to minimize ...

Of the 15 distinct species of cranes, two migratory cranes (sandhill and whooping) seem to be prime candidates for colonizing ...

said the Sandhill crane deaths also highlight a greater concern: the risk to endangered whooping cranes. Though there are an estimated 827,000 sandhill cranes in the United States, there are as ...

The number of endangered whooping cranes has remained steady at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, but the sandhill crane population has decreased less than two weeks before the refuge's 10th ...

A single whooping crane spent some time this week with a sandhill crane group in the Alda area, according to wildlife biologist Dave Baasch. He is a crane habitat specialist for Headwaters ...

the endangered whooping crane and the sandhill crane. The design becomes the latest specialized license plate to benefit environmental organizations supporting conservation efforts within the ...

Whooping crane 1018 was relocated from an Osceola County ... Some bird species adapt better to living in subdivisions, like meadowlarks or sandhill cranes, he said, but whooping cranes stand ...