Tall, magnificent birds with long legs and necks, cranes spend most of their lives near the shallow water of swamps, lakes, streams, and ponds to hunt for prey and construct their nests. There are 15 ...

It's really tough," she said. Whooping cranes, which stand over 5 feet tall, were never abundant. Hunting and habitat loss decimated the species by the early 1940s, when fewer than 20 birds remained.

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It wasn’t just the fact that they were asking an honest question ... the California condor, the whooping crane and grizzly bear, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Once species are ...

It wasn’t just the fact that they were asking an honest question ... the California condor, the whooping crane and grizzly ...

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

The Wilder Institute’s Archibald Biodiversity Centre greeted its first whopping cranes hatched at the facility on May 28 — coincidentally, Whooping Crane Day. The whooping crane program moved ...

Chicago-based filmmaker Tim Whalen crossed ballet with conservation in the short film "Mates for Life: Whooping Crane," which had its premiere Tuesday at Facets in Chicago.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Two infants in the state of Kentucky have died in the last six months from pertussis, an illness more commonly known as whooping cough. The Kentucky Department for Public Health ...

The state Department of Health in a Friday statement said the rise in cases last year was “staggering” and coincides with a drop in whooping cough vaccination rates among young children.