Ultimately, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' goal is to downgrade the whooping crane’s status from endangered to threatened.

A $5,000 reward is being offered to find out who killed a whooping crane in southwest Louisiana in January, federal authorities said. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in a news release ...

NEW ORLEANS— The Center for Biological Diversity today increased the total reward to $15,000 for information leading to a conviction in the illegal killing of a whooping crane in Mamou, Louisiana. The ...

The release of the young birds, which were raised at a facility on the Westbank, is part of a years-long effort to bring the endangered species back to Louisiana. The whooping crane is one of the ...

the Whooping Crane Center of Texas. It was moved this fall to Audubon. All four birds were added Sunday to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area ...

DALLAS — Dallas Zoo officials say a whooping crane that was born at the zoo and later released in the wild was found fatally shot in Louisiana. The crane, which had been celebrated by the zoo as ...

This is a photo of the widowed crane’s new mate she met in Louisiana, officials say. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries photo A tragic love story involving a widowed whooping crane ...

But 1018 isn’t the only whooping crane to move from Florida to Louisiana. Since 2019, five have been relocated and three have found mates and nested. Dellinger said 1018 will be released into ...

A whooping crane that lived near the subdivision in Osceola County for decades was moved recently to Louisiana by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. There are now four left in ...