In 1954, an eight-year-old George Archibald was sitting in a one-room school in Nova Scotia when he heard a CBC radio program about whooping cranes in Northern Canada. It was a dramatization ...

a recording of a contact call that crane parents make for their chicks. Whooping cranes were almost extinct — until Canadian ornithologist George Archibald learned to dance with them In the ...

This story appears in the June 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nearly grazing the treetops, a tiny red plane swoops in dizzying circles over the bogs and forests of Canada's Wood ...

The guard call of sandhill cranes rings through Steuben County skies as the recently frozen world returns to life.

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been planning to weaken whooping crane protections since early 2021, according to federal documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas — Thousands of people from across the world have gathered in Port Aransas for a rare opportunity to observe the endangered whooping crane during the 28th annual Whooping ...

"It's really shocking," Lacy said of the crane deaths. "That magnitude of that loss makes us worried not only about sandhill cranes but of course whooping cranes, too." Lacy and the foundation work ...

WASHINGTON— Buried in the Biden administration’s unified regulatory agenda released last week is a plan by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to weaken or end protections for several iconic species, ...

Whooping crane conservation efforts have been ongoing ... "We should all be proud of the fact that something so foreign trusts our land and our community to keep it safe." ...