The massive whooping crane management effort involves numerous ... When summer ends, these migratory birds set out for the Gulf Coast of Texas, where they winter in the Aransas National Wildlife ...

Whooping crane on Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas (credit: S. Hillebrand, USFWS). Conservation projects around the Refuge offer a particularly good return-on-investment for many species.

Whooping cranes are still endangered, with around 800 worldwide and over 500 in Texas. The festival is key ... enough land for them," Julie said. "The habitat is the most important thing.

In 1870, there were thought to be between 500 and 1,400 whooping cranes living in the wild. But as people drained the birds’ wetland habitat for agriculture and hunted them for their feathers ...

Both species of North American cranes—the abundant sandhill crane and the endangered whooping crane—are vulnerable to power ... how sandhill cranes reacted to power lines and identify the habitat ...

Whooping cranes are the rarest of the world’s crane species, with just 506 individuals in the Texas population and 79 individuals ... threatened by sea-level rise caused by climate change, habitat ...

Both the whooping crane ... winters along the Texas coast around the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, which is also threatened by sea-level rise. The crane is also jeopardized by pesticides, ...