Conservation groups fear the Trump administration's changes to the Endangered Species Act could destroy habitat for the endangered whooping crane.

It's too soon to say what the long-term impacts of earlier wildfires might be on the world’s only natural wild migratory ...

Aransas-Wood Buffalo whooping crane population counts stayed stable this winter. Read more about the endangered bird species ...

Hear the remarkable tale of the bird that came within a hair’s breadth of extinction. Find out how the whooping crane’s success story could continue.

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.

The species once dwindled to about 50 birds nationwide, but today, the population has grown to more than 500.

The haunting call of the whooping crane has echoed across North America's wetlands for thousands of years. Now, ...

A first-of-its-kind sighting emerged from the latest survey.

WILMETTE, Ill. (CBS) -- Wildlife experts successfully rescued a whooping crane that was found in a residential rea in north suburban Wilmette this week. Birder Scott Judd shared photos of the rescue ...

A group of Jeff Davis Parish children got an up-close lesson Thursday on one of North America’s rarest birds as a wildlife ...

Five feet tall, with a 7-foot wingspan, the whooping crane is a Pleistocene relic that has somehow survived into the 21st century. Slammed by hunting and habitat loss, whoopers hit a low of 22 ...

George Archibald is growing tired of telling this story, but to prove history is repeating itself right here at the Dallas Zoo, he'll start from the beginning. It's 1982 and the conservationist is ...