A mainstay of the Rockport-Port Aransas region since 1937, the refuge provides a habitat ... of the annual Whooping Crane Festival in Port Aransas, and the University of Texas Marine Science ...

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 ...

“Conversion of the species’ prairie and wetland habitat to ... on the central Texas coast with the hopes that it would join the small migratory flock of whooping cranes there.” ...

came to speak about crane conservation on April 15. She works in Texas on the wetland habitat of whooping cranes, working specifically with private landowners to create hospitable spaces to promote ...

The Trump extinction proposal: Whooping cranes cannot survive without safe places to stop along their migration, including those who travel some 2,500 miles each year between coastal Texas and ...

The passage of the ESA provided critical help by protecting the bird’s habitat ... whooping crane population, in Florida) to supplement the cranes’ historic route from Canada to Texas ...