"There’s a lot of story to be written." $8.4 million Texas sanctuary opens for very rare 5-foot-tall birds that live for ...

The Cook Museum of Natural Science will offer complimentary admission and a full slate of family-friendly programs Saturday ...

Following the species' comeback, new pressures are converging on their wintering habitat along the Texas coast.

WOLFBERRY WHOOPING CRANE SANCTUARY, Texas (AP) — Carter Crouch has been fascinated by the whooping crane’s conservation story for as long as he can remember. The white bird, named for its “whooping” ...

Once on the brink of extinction, the birds now have a new sanctuary on an isolated stretch of the Gulf Coast between Corpus Christi and Houston.

(WLUK) -- An endangered whooping crane, set to be released into the wild, died earlier this month from bird flu. The International Crane Foundation says the loss marks the first confirmed death of a ...

While Texas is renowned for its king-sized cities—Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, to name a few—there’s a lot more to this historic state than just urban sprawl. Along the Texas shoreline, visitors ...

A rare bird species that once vanished from Louisiana is making a steady comeback as four more whooping cranes were released into the wild last month. The release of the young birds, which were raised ...

Once on the brink of extinction, the birds have expanded beyond the protected lands set aside for them in the 1970s.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed over 20 years. Now he’s moved on. This particular snowbird, ...

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 ...