An egg was found abandoned in a wild nest in Wisconsin and given to a pair of whooping cranes named Tehya, 16 years old, and Goliath, 25 years old, at SCBI. The institute is the National Zoo’s ...

At this point in the year, whooping cranes are getting ready to start nesting season. "Last year our first nest was Feb. 1," Zimorski said. "It's always exciting to monitor their nests ...

On Friday, the Virginia facility announced that the whooping crane, which is one of the most ... Refuge found the egg abandoned in a wild nest in Wisconsin and passed the discovery on to SCBI ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A whooping crane chick hatched for the first time ... staff in Wisconsin found the egg abandoned in a wild nest. A 16-year-old female named Tehya and a 25-year-old male ...

Other threats to whooping crane recovery include low genetic diversity, power line collisions, predation, disturbance at nest sites and illegal shootings, according to the ICF. And unfortunately ...

Among his most treasured experiences: two brand-new whooping-crane chicks meeting their parents on a massive nest of reeds, a sight that moved him to tears.

At five feet, whooping cranes are North America's tallest birds, migrating thousands of miles from Canada to the Coastal Bend each winter to nest, drawing birdwatchers eager to see them.

Eaglet removed from nest at arboretum in D.C. — and viewers freak out Whooping crane babies are called colts because they have long legs. They fledge when they’re between 80 and 100 days old ...