Only about 830 whooping cranes exist in the world but they used to number in the tens of thousands in North America alone.

Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed for ...

Spring draws hundreds of millions of birds north after winter shooed them away. Here are some of the species traveling to or ...

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To trigger her reproductive cycle — so she could be artificially inseminated — Archibald learned to dance like a crane. Dancing is the bird's language of courtship. And after seven years ...

Editor's note: This story was updated with a new estimate for the number of cranes that have died in Indiana. So far, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not seen any evidence of the bird flu ...

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In the wake of an unprecedented mass die-off of sandhill cranes due to bird flu in Indiana, wildlife specialists are expressing heightened concerns over the potential impact of the disease to ...