The festival will feature a vast range of different birds at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge like sandhill cranes, whooping cranes, ducks, white pelicans, songbirds, wedding birds and many more.

The condensed schedule for Festival of the Cranes will feature talks by ornithologists, biologists and more on Saturday. Originally scheduled for Jan. 10-12, the annual Festival of the Cranes, which ...

On these cold, dreary days of January when the skies are gray and the forests drab, it’s a joy to visit a wildlife refuge to ...

A love of birds and falconry led Phillip Nette into his avocation of rescuing injured birds of prey. The 61-year-old from Moulton and his 58-year-old wife, Vicki, are ready to help when they receive a ...

Due to the threat of winter weather in Decatur and across north Alabama, this weekend’s 2025 Festival of the Cranes is being ...

The event had originally been set for a weekend full of events in Decatur and Wheeler Wildlife Refuge from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12, but the tourism office said they needed to reschedule for safety reasons.

Plans to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas have ground to a halt after not a single bid was placed on the land. Grizzly bears are one of the many species that call the ...

A Second Oil and Gas Lease Sale for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Draws No Bids JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday said no bids were submitted for this ...

Photographer and wildlife biologist Kelly Warren likes to be where the flocks are, and he says Baskett Slough is one of four easy-to-reach U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuges in the Willamette Valley that ...