No, they are actually slowly increasing, nearly 500 in the wild.
Thanks to rehabilitation efforts and legal protection, whooping cranes' populations have stabilized but they remain a severely threatened species. The one truly wild band of whooping cranes that summers in the Wood Buffalo Park in the Northwest Territories has a stable or slowly increasing population. Efforts to reintroduce cranes along the eastern flyway are based primarily in Wisconsin at the Necedah Wildlife Refuge; there is a small but slowly growing population.
There are around 350 in the wild, still on the trail to recovery.
whooping cranes are white and sandhill cranes are gray
It is to monitor whooping cranes habitats.
Whooping Cranes are not extinct, but almost were. If we haven't looked at the situation the way we did the whooping crane would probally be extinct by now. There are about 500 whooping cranes left in the North America (they only live in North America).
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The scientific family of the whooping crane is Gruidae.
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Whooping cranes are the tallest bird in North America - around five feet tall.
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