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

One of the prime reasons whooping cranes are susceptible to extinction is their low reproduction rate. It takes four to seven years for a baby whooping crane to become sexually mature, and a ...

Little W-1 and baby W4-22 are doing fine, thank you very much. W-1 and W4-22 are whooping crane babies in Wisconsin that have recently fledged, thanks to the help of the International Crane ...

Every year, staffers name the baby cranes according to a theme, Dunn added. This year's theme was pasta shapes, so the four released cranes were named Gigli, Vermicelli, Fiori and Gemelli.

The Fish and Wildlife Service this week reported steady growth in the population of the rarest crane in the world.

The Whooping Crane Center of Texas is not open to the public. You can follow updates on the chick's journey on the Dallas Zoo Twitter account. DALLAS ZOO. Dallas Zoo Jun 15, 2023 ...

In the 1940s, whooping cranes were on the brink of extinction, ... That's where Wellington's team comes in: her role is crucial to the development and training of baby cranes for the wild.

Whooping cranes started wintering at Wheeler in 2004 to the surprise of biologists, who expected the birds to winter in Florida, which, with its salt marshes and crabs, featured a habitat and diet ...

The largest migrating flock of whooping cranes in the wild is set to return to Texas in record numbers over the next few weeks. State and federal wildlife officials say they expect as many as 290 ...

The whooping crane was listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened in 1967 and endangered in 1970. The agency said the bird’s name probably originated from the loud, ...

Since 2011, a state program began reintroducing whooping cranes into a conservation area in Southwest Louisiana at a time when the birds were nonexistent in the state.