Goetze: Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents slowly flying and gliding into the area.

BARABOO, Wis. - You may have seen sandhill cranes before, but not many people have had the pleasure of seeing a whooping crane in person. Whooping cranes nearly went extinct in the late 1800s and ...

The International Crane Foundation says whooping cranes once ranged from central Canada to Mexico and from Utah to the Atlantic coast. As many as 1,400 of the birds existed in the mid-1800s. Their ...

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.

It's the season to be on the lookout for enormous white birds, otherwise known as whooping cranes, as they begin their migration to their wintering grounds. As many as 230 of the endangered birds are ...

We were 800 feet up in the air, flying in a helicopter with an international team of scientists over the vast boreal forest encompassing Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, when one of them shouted ...

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.

In this week’s segment of “North Dakota Outdoors,” host Mike Anderson tells us about a large, white bird with black-tipped wings that travels through North Dakota every spring and fall – the whooping ...

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 of ...

The weather-delayed whooping crane migration from Wisconsin to Florida finally got off the ground Tuesday, with 10 birds flying in two shifts to a stopover in south Juneau County, according to ...