Ten whooping crane chicks in the marshes of southern Louisiana got big enough to fly this year. That is the record. It beats the previous best of eight, set four years earlier, and the state wildlife ...

Anyone looking up these weeks often sees and hears them from afar: cranes, also known as Grus grus, flying in large ...

Sandhill cranes have been migrating between their winter and summer homes, flying in large groups for thousands of miles, for centuries. But it’s only been since the 1970s that large numbers of those ...

When the two crane chicks arrived at the DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center last spring, they had been separated from their parent, who had a badly injured leg. That parent was “elusive,” center ...

More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness. Volunteers in masks ...

The birds migrate to Israel primarily from northern Russia, Finland and Estonia, with tens of thousands expected in the coming weeks.

LINUM, Germany — In a spot outside Berlin that's usually a paradise for birdwatchers, volunteers have recovered nearly 2,000 dead cranes in recent days as bird flu has hit the migrating birds hard.

Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly persistent strain of avian influenza, killing at least 1,500 of the migrating birds in recent weeks, according to a biologist with the Indiana ...

For more than a decade, ultralight aircraft and crane-costumed handlers taught captive-bred whooping cranes a 1,200-mile migration route from Wisconsin to Florida.