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 ...

When the two crane chicks arrived at the DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center last spring, they had been separated from their parent, who had a badly injured leg. That parent was “elusive,” center ...

After Jeff Davis Parish welcomed Louisiana’s first whooping crane chick of 2026, four families of the endangered species are ...

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 ...

Efforts to save whooping cranes took a step back thanks to someone in Louisiana who killed one in January. The Dallas Zoo announced some tragic news Wednesday on X: “It is with a heavy heart that we ...

The Dallas Zoo's Whooping Crane Center of Texas (WCCT) successfully released a juvenile whopping crane into the wild population in Louisiana on Sunday, Nov. 12. In June, the whooping crane egg was ...

A cash reward is being offered for information leading to the name and arrest of the individuals responsible for the shooting death of a whooping crane. On Wednesday, Dallas Zoo officials posted on X ...

A pair of cranes have successfully reared a chick to fledging in Wicken Fen, in East Anglia, in what is thought to be the first time in hundreds of years. The cranes have chosen to breed at Wicken Fen ...

In shrinking grasslands, crane parents must work together to protect their eggs from unexpected dangers. As livestock move closer, both parents are forced to act in defense of their future chicks — ...

A pair of sarus cranes (Antigone antigone) was observed preying on a grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) chick at the Dhanauri Wetlands, in west Uttar Pradesh, in northern India, beating ...