Sandhill cranes travel thousands of miles every year between their breeding grounds and wintering sites. Along the way, they ...

We’re big advocates for whooping cranes, with only about 700 left ... Here’s a look at these easygoing birds of North America and the qualities that make them so abundant.

According to the American Bird Conservancy, about 650,000 sandhill cranes live in North America, and their population is growing. They are steel gray in color with distinctive red caps.

I had the opportunity to travel to Nebraska to witness the sandhill crane migration. It is the largest migration of cranes, not just in North America, but in the world. Dr. Jane Goodall calls it ...

Birds are rapidly vanishing from North America, with dramatic population losses in places that were once thought safe.

The red-crowned crane is one of the rarest birds in the world; fewer than 3,000 survive in the wild. (The whooping crane, in North America, is even more rare, with 382 in the wild.) It has two ...

North American bird populations are shrinking most rapidly in the very areas where they are still most abundant, according to a new study leveraging citizen science data for nearly 500 bird species.

A newly published study has found that nearly 75% of bird species in North America are sharply declining across their ranges, and eight in 10 plummeting in the very areas where they’re thought ...

This news follows on the heels of other recent research that documented widespread losses of birds in North America. The 2025 U. S. State of the Birds report showed bird declines in almost every ...