A number of rare and endangered bird species can be seen in Louisiana, if you know how to find them. Here are the species and ...

“In March of 1950, the last remaining whooping crane in Louisiana was captured at White Lake and transported to Aransas ...

Only about 830 whooping cranes exist in the world but they used to number in the tens of thousands in North America alone.

The Choctaw wear a white crane feather on their baseball caps to indicate ability. The Lakota wear a red adornment called a pesa that is like the forehead of a sandhill. Cranes are guardian birds ...

In contrast, 1018’s height of 5 feet and stark white feathers made ... a chance to see a whooping crane in real life for the first time in over 15 years of bird-watching.