Whooping cranes, which stand nearly six feet tall, are North America's tallest flying birds and among the world's rarest birds. In 1944, there were just 21 alive, a number that has grown to about ...

Talk about an endangered species story to whoop about. The whooping crane once nested throughout the central and western part of the continent, but as people settled the Prairies in the early 1900s, ...

Locking the crane’s pen, Wenman looks back and double-checks the enclosure’s hooks. Wild whooping crane populations have soared to more than 650 but no chances are taken with his precious charges.

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

In 1954 there were only six pairs of the birds in the world. Now, whooping crane numbers in the park are 10 times that. Brian Johns says its been a good season for the birds. He's the biologist in ...

The Wilder Institute’s Archibald Biodiversity Centre greeted its first whopping cranes hatched at the facility on May 28 — coincidentally, Whooping Crane Day. The whooping crane program moved to the ...

It’s another small victory for the whooping crane, which was down to 21 birds in the wilderness back in the 1940’s. According to the zoo , there are an estimated 868 wild whooping cranes in ...

There are seven breeding pairs at the Calgary Zoo and one non-breeding pair on display. Canada is home to the world’s largest migratory population of whooping cranes.

A bird intern at the Audubon Nature Institute’s Species Survival Center in New Orleans, waves and runs to demonstrate alarm for Tornado, a 42-day-old whooping crane chick on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.

‘They’re incapable of parenting’: Even people dressed as whooping cranes can’t make the birds good parents For 15 years, whooping crane chicks have been hand-raised by scientists wearing ...

Brian Johns, wildlife biologist and whooping crane co-ordinator with the Canadian Wildlife Service, monitors nesting habits and counts the nesting pairs and resulting offspring.

In this March 13, 2019 photo provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, biologist Eva Szyszkoski uses brooms to fend off a pair of nesting whooping cranes, so biologist Sara ...