Tag: Whooping cranes

Whooping cranes are dispersing far from their reintroduction sites in Wisconsin, suggesting conservation efforts for the endangered birds are paying off. “We are starting to see the population behaving more...

Efforts to restore endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) to the wild have resumed after COVID-19 precautions brought the program nearly to a halt. Fourteen crane chicks are being raised in...

For the first time in over a century, endangered whooping cranes are nesting in Texas. Two pairs of the birds recently began laying eggs on private land in Jefferson and...

As the endangered whooping crane has recovered from a mere 16 birds in the 1940s to over 500 today, their flock sizes have also increased during migration, researchers found. Whooping...

It’s not only people who can learn from their elders, but also whooping cranes that tend to follow older generations’ overwintering behaviors, according to new research. As part of a...

A few years ago, biologists in Louisiana — covered from head to toe in white whooping crane costumes — released juvenile whoopers into the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in...