News - Annual Whooping Crane Festival in Port Aransas, Texas

We are still crunching the numbers on the winter whooping crane population estimate and hope to publish it within the next few weeks.

The tracking partnership continues to provide us new insight into whooping crane use of traditional coastal marsh areas.

We have been seeing the whooping cranes moving about extensively within the coastal areas. It seem as though the birds may finally be settling in for the winter.

Nearly all of the radio-marked whooping cranes have migrated to their wintering grounds on the Texas coast.

The majority of the radio-marked whooping cranes have migrated to their wintering grounds on the Texas coast.

It is estimated that approximately 35% of the radio-marked whooping cranes have made it to their wintering grounds on the Texas coast. T