We’re big advocates for whooping cranes, with only about 700 left ... Here’s a look at these easygoing birds of North America and the qualities that make them so abundant.

Sandhill cranes of North America are by far the most abundant crane ... and fly back to their roosts for the night. Many of the birds will roost on sandbars in the rivers. These birds appear ...

BUT HERE IS THE CONCERN. THIS IS THE CENTRAL FLYWAY, WHERE 80% OF ALL SANDHILL CRANES TRAVEL, OR OVER 1,000,050% OF ALL MIGRATORY BIRDS IN NORTH AMERICA. AND MANY ALL SQUEEZED INTO AN 80 MILE ...

“Alaska is the birthplace of nearly half the North American cranes, the sandhill cranes,” Ross said. Although cranes are considered one of the most threatened families of birds, sandhill crane ...

Every spring, more than 600,000 sandhill cranes ... the birds linger in a location for weeks, fattening themselves during the day in the fields to prepare for their journey as far north as Siberia.

It's the Rocky Mountain population of the Greater Sandhill Crane, and the flock is around 25,000 birds. Other places across North America see cranes too. In Indiana, at least 1,500 of the eastern ...

North American fossils reveal that cranes have ... which sometimes makes a croaky rattling sound similar to a sandhill crane. Many birds and frogs have a wide repertoire of sounds they use for ...

The red-crowned crane is one of the rarest birds in the world; fewer than 3,000 survive in the wild. (The whooping crane, in North America, is even more rare, with 382 in the wild.) It has two ...