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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of sandhill cranes were at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area in February 2023 during their migration north. If you want ...

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.

It’s a good idea to keep a close eye (and ear) on the natural world, because there’s always something going on. How about the erratic screeches of a young robin trying to perfect his species’ song? Or ...

Whopping cranes are not born with a programmed instinct to migrate, so a group of humans stepped in to teach them the way.

JERUSALEM (AP) — A bird flu outbreak in northern Israel has killed at least 5,200 migratory cranes and forced farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chickens as authorities try to contain what ...

A record number of sandhill cranes gathered in Nebraska in mid-March during their annual spring migration. Matt Urbanski / Crane Trust Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes are once again flocking ...

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 ...

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 ...