The appearance of an Asian hooded crane in southeast Tennessee in December of 2011, came as a surprise to everyone, raising much speculation...

A secretive bird whose breeding territories were only first discovered in 1974, the Hooded Crane is described as one of the least understood...

Did you know that there are only 60 known breeding pairs of Hooded Cranes in the world?  And that the Hooded Crane's breeding and winte...

What is this issue all about? Watercolor by Vickie Henderson Sandhill crane defining territory with aggression display on feeding gro...

Kentucky has initiated a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes that will be voted on by the Kentucky Wildlife Resources Commission this spring. ...

I am happy and relieved to report that the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission voted today to defer the hunting of sandhill cranes for t...

This post contains a lovely tribute to the eastern population of Greater Sandhill cranes that migrates through my home state of Tennessee.  ...

"Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.  It expands through successive stages of beautiful to ...

"The cranes were spectacular--thousands and thousands of them, on the shore, on distant sandbars, in flight behind me and in front of m...