GAUTIER, Miss. (AP) — Dressed in white canvas bags, their faces hidden behind a double layer of heavy black plastic mesh, the biologists turned avian foster parents spoke in hushed voices. “We don’t ...

What are those lanky, gray birds leisurely walking around our backyards, roadways and towns? Here's where you can find ...

One of the most graceful birds on Earth is the sandhill crane. These tall, slate gray birds with a bright red cap breed in the open grasslands, wetlands and prairies of northern North America. They ...

On Friday, Dec. 6, I was toiling away in my home office. Suddenly, over the mild cacophony of various feeder birds out back, I heard the faint guttural rattling of sandhill cranes. In a flash, I shot ...

As winter approaches, snowbirds are beginning their annual migration to Arizona for more temperate weather. But it's not just the people from northern states escaping snowed-in homes. These are actual ...

Registration is now open for a Sandhill Crane viewing trip scheduled for March 5.

Sean Leone got up before the crack of dawn last month to catch a rare sight right outside his house on Fish Lake, Indiana: thousands of sandhill cranes. With their tall gray bodies and a hint of ...

Sandy, the 6-year-old sandhill crane who left Porter County last month for a new home at the Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., emerged from quarantine ...

Maybe it’s her natural orange highlights or her graceful walk — or maybe even her friendly disposition, one where her friends have her eating from the palms of their hands. Whatever the reason, plenty ...

BARABOO, Wis. - You may have seen sandhill cranes before, but not many people have had the pleasure of seeing a whooping crane in person. Whooping cranes nearly went extinct in the late 1800s and ...