Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed for ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been planning to weaken whooping crane protections since early 2021, according to federal documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity.

Gates drove over an hour from her Merritt Island home to Osceola for a chance to see a whooping crane in real life for the first time in over 15 years of bird-watching. “I watched him fly in ...