Name: Whooping Crane

Description: Whooping cranes are the tallest birds in North America, standing nearly 1.5 m (5 ft) high and having an average wingspan of 2.3 m (7.5 ft). Adult males weigh about 7.5 kg (about 16.5 lb). They have white plumage with black wing tips and an area of naked skin on the head that is bright red.

Reason for being endangered: It just suddenly drop to 15 cranes in the 1800s.

Where you can find them: Historically, whooping cranes wintered along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to central Mexico and migrated nearly 2500 miles through the Midwestern United States to breed in western Canada. The cranes were known to winter on the Texas coast, but the location of their breeding grounds was unknown.