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 ...

Arrivals and departures are staggered over several weeks, but at peak stopover, it's one of the great sights of natural ...

Hokkaido is home to about 1,800 of these birds--more than half the global population of red-crowned cranes, according to conservationists. Most of them inhabit eastern Hokkaido.

With temperatures rising in spring, the Naolihe National Nature Reserve in Heilongjiang province recently welcomed increasing ...

This tall bird has a dramatic appearance ... 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 ...