This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nearly grazing the treetops, a tiny red plane swoops in dizzying circles over the bogs and forests of Canada's Wood ...

a recording of a contact call that crane parents make for their chicks. Whooping cranes were almost extinct — until Canadian ornithologist George Archibald learned to dance with them In the ...

Crane Trust officials say they've never seen such a big jump in numbers of cranes arriving in Nebraska for the spring migration.

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been planning to weaken whooping crane protections since early 2021, according to federal documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity.

The guard call of sandhill cranes rings through Steuben County skies as the recently frozen world returns to life.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas — Thousands of people from across the world have gathered in Port Aransas for a rare opportunity to observe the endangered whooping crane during the 28th annual Whooping ...

WASHINGTON— Buried in the Biden administration’s unified regulatory agenda released last week is a plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to weaken or end protections for several iconic species, ...

Whooping crane conservation efforts have been ongoing ... "We should all be proud of the fact that something so foreign trusts our land and our community to keep it safe." ...