Whooping crane on Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas (credit: S. Hillebrand, USFWS). Conservation projects around the Refuge offer a particularly good return-on-investment for many species.

Kuyt's excursion marked a major step in the now decades-long effort to save the whooping crane, begun by ... what would later become the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.

If you’re out and about and hear that distinct bugle call, it may be coming from whooping cranes ... fly 2,500 miles to get ...

Both the whooping crane and ... the Texas coast around the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, which is also threatened by sea-level rise. The crane is also jeopardized by pesticides, powerline ...

The big picture: The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and the Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge along the Gulf Coast are expanding by a combined 150,000 acres to protect the whooping crane ...

including those like Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas that are home to sensitive wildlife such as the bald eagle and whooping crane. Photos and videos are available here. For more information ...