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.

MILWAUKEE — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is recommending an end to the use of ultralight aircraft to lead endangered whooping cranes from Wisconsin on their first fall migrations to Florida, and ...

The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership launched the reintroduction effort in the 1990s after concern rose whooping cranes could become extinct if a natural disaster or accident decimated the only self ...

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 ...

The migration occurs as warmer-weather birds relocate to find better weather and more abundant food sources. While the state ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The pilots of the bird-like aircraft that has been leading nine young whooping cranes to their winter home in Florida have been granted a special exemption by federal regulators to ...

A $5,000 reward is being offered to find out who killed a whooping crane in southwest Louisiana in January, federal authorities said. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in a news release, announced ...

With their large frames, bright red patches and unique calls, whooping cranes are hard to miss. However, research completed by Purdue University and the International Crane Foundation, or ICF, found ...

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 ...

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.

KEARNEY — It’s almost impossible to be in the right place at the right time to see an endangered whooping crane, even though the tall white whoopers with black wingtips and red caps stand out among ...