GUEYDAN, La. - For more than sixty years, Louisiana lost one of its most majestic birds, the whooping crane. Whooping cranes are North America's tallest flying birds, standing about five feet tall.

Tall, graceful, and among the rarest birds on earth. Here are eight things you probably didn't know about this awe-inspiring ...

ACADIA PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The radio receiver is tuned to a tiny transmitter on the leg of a whooping crane. “Generally, the closer you get, the louder the signal is,” says Sara Zimorski. Zimorski is ...

A record number of whooping cranes — 557 — were spotted this winter around the Texas coast, the highest count ever recorded ...

BIRDMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. 1. Whooping cranes past and present / John B. French, Sarah J. Converse, Jane E. Austin -- 2.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard and seen some annual winter residents of Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma slowly flying and gliding into the area. For myself and many other people, ...

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” ...

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

The whooping crane population wintering at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge reached a record high of 557 birds during the 2024-25 season. The population has shown steady growth, with a growth rate of ...

Waterfowl in the north Alabama area will soon a space of their own. The Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Decatur is ...