Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, ...

Every year, over one million cranes roost in the Central Platte River Valley in Nebraska during their spring migration. The Crane Trust, a non profit preserving the crane’s habitat, offers guided ...

Four new whooping cranes are now a part of Louisiana's experimental population in Vermilion Parish, state wildlife regulators said. Whooping cranes are an endangered species and officials for more ...

A flock of Sandhill Cranes flies over Rowe Sanctuary near Gibbon, Nebraska, on March 21, 2025. (© Leesa Goodson via Courthouse News) GIBBON, Neb. (CN) — Before dawn on a recent Friday, thousands of ...

She explained that when sandhill cranes first arrive in the Platte Valley, they're anxious to leave the river in the mornings and get to the fields to feed. By late March, they will have put on weight ...

As winter approaches, snowbirds are beginning their annual migration to Arizona for more temperate weather. But it's not just the people from northern states escaping snowed-in homes. These are actual ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – The annual Festival of the Cranes will return to Decatur in January. This year, though, there are a few extra special additions. More than 20,000 sandhill cranes and roughly two ...

NECEDAH, Wis. (AP) -- Two eggs produced from a migratory flock of endangered whooping cranes took a commercial flight Thursday to Maryland, where biologists hope they hatch. Wildlife experts also hope ...

Sandhill cranes fly over Nebraska's Platte River, where they gather each year during their spring migration, in 2009. USFWS A record number of sandhill cranes arrived in central Nebraska during the ...

With their winter migration underway, nature’s largest, most recognizable birds have returned to their winter quarters in San Joaquin County, giving outdoor enthusiasts reason to celebrate. You can ...

NEW ORLEANS - More than a dozen young whooping cranes are expected to arrive this fall in southwest Louisiana, doubling the number in a flock being reintroduced near the area where the state's last ...

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 ...