The birds are doing particularly well in northern and eastern Europe, and they’re now seeking out other sites with good food ...

Once nearly having fallen into extinction, North America's tallest bird is now making a much awaited come-back. A new survey from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated a record-breaking 557 ...

The recent deaths of an estimated 1,500 sandhill cranes in Indiana due to bird flu has increased concerns for endanagered whooping cranes, including those that nest in Wisconsin.

Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled ...

This spring's sandhill crane migration saw a record number of birds counted in one week and no confirmed cases of bird flu among the cranes in the Central Flyway.

More than 1,500 iconic sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana, officials say, the latest development in the spread of the highly infectious respiratory illness. Volunteers in ...

Dead birds float in Fish Lake in Indiana. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says for the first time, sandhill cranes are being killed by bird flu.

While bird flu concerns are increasing across the country, the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has been protecting its flock from the virus for years.

Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly persistent strain of avian influenza, killing at least 1,500 of the migrating birds in recent weeks, according to a biologist with the India… ...

Bird flu has been detected in migrant sandhill crane populations in Jackson County, but also statewide.

Sandhill crane season opened Saturday in the western half of Oklahoma but those birds are not to be confused with whooping cranes, which are endangered and federally protected.

Over 100 migrating sandhill cranes have been found dead from avian influenza at Fish Lake. An estimated 1,500 sandhill cranes in Indiana have died from bird flu this year.