Some Hoosiers "migrate" south to Florida for the winter, and some bird species migrate to south-central Indiana for part or all of winter. That includes sandhill cranes and their endangered cousins, ...

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 ...

A rare bird species that once vanished from Louisiana is making a steady comeback as four more whooping cranes were released into the wild last month. The release of the young birds, which were raised ...

A whooping crane chick died from avian flu in Wisconsin, the first known death of the endangered species from the disease. The H5N1 virus has been circulating in North America since late 2021, killing ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is heralding the five whooping crane chicks that hatched and survived to leave the nest this year as a tremendous step for the reintroduction of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — In flooded agricultural ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed over 20 years. Now he’s moved on. This particular snowbird, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — 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 ...

And here's a story of an improving environment. This year a record number of whooping cranes migrated from the northwest territory of Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. The record was 237 whooping ...

A whooping crane chick died from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in September in Wisconsin, the first known mortality of the endangered species from the disease, according to the ...