In the 1940s, whooping cranes were on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 20 left. Today there are more than 800. The ICF helped grow their numbers through conservation, breeding and ...

The flock of whooping cranes that migrates between Wood Buffalo National Park and Texas has grown by 40 per cent between 1998 and 2008, but it has only 270 birds as of 2008, according to the report.

The Species Survival Center on New Orleans’ west bank houses 36 of the 163 whooping cranes currently living in captivity, including 10 destined for a new facility under construction by the ...

Funding for the US$1.5 million whooping crane propagation program at Patuxent, part of a broader public-private initiative in the United States and Canada, dries up this month. The U.S. Geological ...

In October, sandhill cranes migrate by the thousands south across southern Saskatchewan, stopping at various localities to refuel before continuing their journey. With them are a handful of whooping ...

Whooping cranes are North America’s tallest birds and one of its most endangered. Reduced to a mere 22 individuals in 1941, careful conservation efforts have restored populations to about 300.

Johns estimates that at their height, whooping cranes numbered "a highly optimistic 10,000." However, European curiosity-seekers chipped away at that over the centuries.

The whooping cranes have now been released at Wisconsin’s International Crane Foundation, where they can take their first flights in the heart of that state’s diverse wetlands.

Martyna Chomiuk The Wilder Institute’s Archibald Biodiversity Centre greeted its first whopping cranes hatched at the facility on May 28 — coincidentally, Whooping Crane Day.

For the first time in over a century there are more than 500 whooping cranes in North America, reports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with a flock of hundreds … ...