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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whooping cranes have made their annual flight to South Texas, and tickets are now on sale for the Whooping Crane Festival ...

They make an engaging sight, these tall, proud birds do. With snow-white bodies and bright, red-feathered heads, the beautiful whooping crane really doesn't walk. It struts and sways its long, ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The pilots of the bird-like aircraft that has been leading nine young whooping cranes to their winter home in Florida have been granted a special exemption by federal regulators to ...

The 15-year project wasn't a flight of fancy. Biologists used a plane to successfully teach many young, captive-bred whooping cranes to migrate... To Make A Wild Comeback, Cranes Need More Than Flying ...