Attendees will discover fascinating facts about the iconic Whooping Crane.

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.

Standing at five feet tall, the whooping crane is the tallest flying bird in North America. But by 1950, Louisiana had lost ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin ...

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, ...

MAMOU, La. (KPLC) - State officials are offering a reward for information about an endangered juvenile whooping crane that was shot and killed in Evangeline Parish, just two months after he was ...

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.

Five feet tall, with a 7-foot wingspan, the whooping crane is a Pleistocene relic that has somehow survived into the 21st century. Slammed by hunting and habitat loss, whoopers hit a low of 22 ...

North America's Great Plains are Mike Forsberg's and Andy Caven's heritage and passion. Yet they can sound like newcomers ...

The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on Thursday after ...