Fly away: Efforts are helping to save endangered whooping cranes

The process of breeding, hatching and raising endangered whooping cranes to become a sustainable population in the wild was highlighted during the March 3 "Dinner on the Bluff" event at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, rural Lanesboro. - By Lisa Brainard

Climate change threatens birds

Experts warn that an increase in extreme weather events, such as drought, storms and floods that the country has started experiencing may also endanger some species.

Cute chick takes mum for a ride

The four-day-old sandhill crane managed to keep cozy in the cold by wrapping up in its mum's feathers and poking its head out to let out a chirp.

Rescued sandhill crane heads to rehab

Sarah Purcell, a veterinary technician at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, bears a little reminder of the sandhill crane she helped nurse back to health. - By Hannah Winston

Audubon invites locals to massive crane migration

If you’ve never seen tens of thousands of cranes with six-foot wingspans congregating in a mountain valley at once, now’s your chance. - by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer

Swan song at Poyang Lake

Nearly 100,000 swans land here every year, according to the Poyang National Nature Reserve. Accompanying them are almost half the world’sswan geese, hooded cranes and white-naped cranes, along with 95% of all oriental storks and 98% of Siberian cranes. For the Siberian crane, the lake is particularly important – only 3,000 of these birds survive, and this is their last remaining winter habitat.

-Yang Xiaohong, March 16, 2012

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A Biologist Decries Slaying of Whooping Cranes

China's Poyang Lake attracts large amount of migratory birds

A flock of grus crane are seen at the Duchang wetland of Poyang Lake in Duchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 20, 2011.