In the wake of an unprecedented mass die-off of sandhill cranes due to bird flu in Indiana, wildlife specialists are expressing heightened concerns over the potential impact of the disease to birds as ...

ALERT AS THE GREAT SANDHILL CRANE MIGRATION BEGINS. ROUGHLY 1 MILLION CRANES WILL CONVERGE ON CENTRAL NEBRASKA AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY NORTH TO NEST FOR THE SUMMER. BUT IN INDIANA, THE BIRD FLU HAS ...

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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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The recent fatal shooting of an endangered whooping crane in rural Indiana is a sad reminder of the threat gunfire poses to North America's tallest birds as the rare species recovers ...

(WLUK) -- An endangered whooping crane, set to be released into the wild, died earlier this month from bird flu. The International Crane Foundation says the loss marks the first confirmed death of a ...

A whooping crane chick died from bird flu in September in Wisconsin. It's the first known death of a whooping crane to the disease.

Anyone expecting sweeping, dramatic music as a rescued sandhill crane left its crate Wednesday at the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area and soared into the crystal clear sky to join its tribe was ...

The recent crane deaths in Indiana are in addition to reports in 2025 of bird flu causing the loss of hundreds of Canada geese in Michigan, and dozens of mergansers and other ducks in Illinois and ...