With its distinctive golden crown, red throat pouch and slender black legs, the crested crane is beloved in Uganda – ...

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 ...

The large, gangly birds often startle homeowners who see them walking down streets and through yards.

A large bird that was once completely gone from Ohio has been spotted more and more in recent years. Now, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is once again asking volunteers to venture out ...

The latest breeding survey in Scotland found that the 10 pairs fledged nine chicks last year. Four pairs were confirmed to ...

Whooping cranes have made an astonishing comeback in North America, thanks in part to some bizarre conservation methods. Over the past 13 years, dozens of cinnamon-brown chicks have been raised in ...

They say birds of a feather flock together, but a pair of sandhill cranes at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary in Green Bay, Wis. were having a hard time fitting in. The 3-year-old female crane, who ...

Hear the wild, bugling calls of sandhill cranes in central Illinois and find out why this spring migration stop leaves ...

A whooping crane chick died from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, in September in Wisconsin, the first known mortality of the endangered species from the disease, according to the ...

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 ...