"All whooping cranes today are descended from only 14 adults remaining on the Texas coast in 1941", he added. Thanks to decades of legal protection, habitat restoration and cross-border collaboration, ...

A record number of whooping cranes — 557 — were spotted this winter around the Texas coast, the highest count ever recorded ...

The results of a survey conducted in January 2024 and February 2025 show growth in the whooping crane population.

Record numbers of whooping cranes have returned to the Texas coast for the winter. As few as 15 of the birds were seen in Texas in the 1940s. This year, 237 birds made the trek to Texas from Canada.

The wild whooping crane population has slowly increased over the past 70 years, and the birds have expanded their wintering range a bit along the Texas coast. But the population, ...

Seen through a long-range camera lens, the whooping crane L4-17 wears a yellow transmitter and red and blue ID bands. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/DELOS McCAULEY) ...

The population of endangered whooping cranes wintering along the upper Texas coast has increased significantly despite persistent drought conditions, a new federal survey concludes. The Fish and ...

A longstanding survey of whooping cranes wintering in Texas has been canceled because of COVID-19 health concerns, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday.

Texas' wintering population of the whooping crane, one of the rarest birds in North America, has topped the 500 mark for the third consecutive year. That's according to biologists from the U.S ...