November and early December can be a frustrating time here at Nanhui – on the one hand, there are fewer and fewer birds as...

As a child of the eighties, I experienced a number of elegies for Whooping Cranes. Commentators seemed to take their extinction as inevitable, although...

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Like my two previous visits I...

Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) are among the oldest living birds. The oldest unequivocal Sandhill Crane fossil is 2.5 million years old, over one and...

A few winters ago, I went waterfowling in East Anglia. At local Internet forums, my friend Dr B. (sounds like some James Bond’s nemesis,...

So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see...

Its a hard life being a bird but its especially hard if you’re a crane. Of the fifteen species of cranes alive today eleven...

Now this is a bird worth seeing!  Get yourself to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Meigs County, Tennessee!