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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The masters of the marsh sounded the alarm even before we got our feet wet. The female whooping crane lifted its head and bugled a guard call when the three-member crew from the International Crane ...

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 ...