Russian president Vladimir Putin attempted to lead a flock of captive-raised Siberian white cranes in flight this week as part of the birds’ training for winter migration. According to some ...

There are 15 species of crane birds still living worldwide. Their diet normally consists of insects, fish, rodents, small reptiles and amphibians, vegetation, and even some cultivated plants.

The bird’s transfer paperwork has been approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the crane will have to spend some time in quarantine when it arrives at the National Zoo.

The previous longest recorded flight for a Demoiselle crane was about 2,800km, for a bird tagged in Mongolia. "This is a male crane, tagged by our team on July 20, 2024.

Six minutes, 36 seconds: bird in hand. Now came the more technical part. Panting and sweaty, the group unpacked their gear. Brandt, a seasoned wildlife biologist who has banded at least 150 wild ...

The count, done through weekly flight estimates, was 583,000 the week before and then dropped to fewer than 400,000 for week eight as the birds stopped to feed and rest and then continued to their ...

First Annual Great Midwest Crane Fest takes flight in Baraboo. By Kathryn Merck. Kathryn Merck. Reporter. Nov 12, 2022 Nov 12, 2022; ... “They’re just big, beautiful birds. ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Four new whooping cranes are now a part of Louisiana's experimental population in Vermilion Parish, state wildlife regulators said. Whooping cranes are an endangered species ...

However, recently, bird flu has killed thousands of sandhill cranes, as well as migrating ducks and geese, in the eastern parts of the U.S. So far, no reported sandhill crane deaths have been ...

Other countries have seen mass crane die-offs caused by bird flu, from Israel to Japan to Hungary, where an at least 10,000 and possibly 20,000 Eurasian cranes died in winter 2023.

Oconomowoc police shot the sandhill crane on April 28, police said. The police department verified the permit April 28 and shot the bird the same day, according to a redacted police report.