Wildlife officials urge Oklahomans to report endangered whooping crane sightings as the birds migrate through the state this fall.

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 ...

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 (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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 decline ...

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 ...