The red-crowned crane is one of the rarest birds in the world; fewer than 3,000 survive in the wild. (The whooping crane, in North America, is even more rare, with 382 in the wild.) It has two ...

Long legs drifting below a pair of giant-winged birds, like silken threads caught in a gentle breeze, glide overhead. Their timeless journey celebrating spring’s arrival. I listen for an ancient avian ...

On 21st February in Beizhen, Liaoning Province, a red-crowned crane unexpectedly descended ... preparing to release it back into the wild. Trump buys Tesla to support Musk What giving up bread ...

A vulnerable red-crowned crane chick ventureed outside at Whipsnade Zoo. The newborn chick walked around with its mother, Blossom, in its enclosure at the zoo. Red-crowned cranes, sometimes known ...

It gets its name from the red patch of feathers on top of its head. There are only two major populations of this crane left in the wild — one group lives year-round in Japan and the other spends ...

According to the Wild Bird Society of Japan, a pair of red-crowned cranes were breeding in a marsh sprawling between Tomakomai, a coastal city south of Sapporo, and Mukawa, a neighboring town east ...