The outbreak also raises fears about the potential threat to the nation's endangered whooping cranes. Though not every dead crane is being tested for bird flu, Indiana state officials confirmed ...

She said the costume has a helmet and visor so the bird can’t see any human face, wings with black tips, black boots and, on one arm, there’s a realistic-looking whooping crane puppet head.

Some birds carry the virus without getting sick. In other cases it causes mass mortality events. With HPAI circulating, Hartup said whooping cranes would face additional risk this year during ...

To celebrate the birds, which during the last count in mid-December numbered more than 17,000 — 17,000 sandhill cranes and 17 whooping cranes — the 14th annual Festival of the Cranes will take ...

Whooping cranes nearly went extinct in the late 1800s and early 1900s because of unregulated hunting and habitat loss. Their numbers went from an estimated 10,000 birds to less than two dozen by ...

About 450 whooping cranes remain in the wild, up from only 20 in the 1940s. “That big white bird that’s five feet tall, hanging out in your community is an endangered species,” Sayers said.

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 ...

The heartbreaking predicament came to light when Louisiana whooping crane researchers discovered one of their birds had lost her mate of “several years” while nesting in Southeast Texas.