Laura Young [email protected] When you’re caring for 75 birds, representing 37 different species, there’s almost always exciting avian news to share. That’s the case for ...

Despite being listed as "threatened" statewide, sandhill cranes are common on the Treasure Coast. See why, and how to keep ...

St. Lucie County Watchdog Reporter Wicker Perlis sees sandhill cranes almost every day, mostly on Indian River Drive or Green River Parkway, in Martin and St. Lucie counties. Yet Perlis also heard ...

Birds are truly a wonder of nature. Some birds are incredibly smart, learning to speak our languages or demonstrating levels of cognitive function that could rival the smartest apes—or the average ...

Like so many others, the Northern transplant flew to Florida for warmer temperatures, landed in Osceola County and stayed for over 20 years. Now he's moved on. This particular snowbird, however, was ...

The Rev. Fred Morris, then the president of the Florida Council of Churches, once observed that losing a species to ...

Young whooping cranes being led south on their first migration from central Wisconsin reached their destination Tuesday - a Florida wildlife refuge more than 1,200 miles from their starting point.

Q: I saw the following quote on a poster at a wildlife sanctuary in Florida: "Cranes are large birds with long beaks found on every continent except Antartica and South America." I understand cranes ...

Sandhill cranes are the latest victims of a particularly persistent strain of avian influenza, killing at least 1,500 of the migrating birds in recent weeks, according to a biologist with the Indiana ...

Sandhill cranes came in by the dozens, and then dozens more, to the grassy marsh of Crex Meadows Wildlife Area. They had spent the day feeding in nearby fields and now were arriving in large numbers ...

Statewide, sandhill cranes are considered "threatened" and "imperiled," according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. However, on the Treasure Coast they are very common, due to ...