The Metro Richmond Zoo announced on Monday that two of their cranes, recently deceased, had tested positive for the H5 bird flu. The zoo said a deceased crane had tested positive for bird flu at a ...

Captive breeding programs have boosted their numbers, and successful reintroduction efforts have raised the number of wild birds to several hundred. The massive whooping crane management effort ...

As the self-appointed president of my new Park City Family Values Party, I was concerned about Leslie Miller’s provocative avian entry in your April 2-4 paper, “Wild Seeing,” about greater sandhill ...

Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago. They are among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most ...