"Staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Front Royal, Virginia, are mourning the loss of Walnut, a white-naped crane who became an ...

Playing the PartWhite-naped crane (vulnerable) When Walnut the crane was brought to the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, she fixated on keeper Chris Crowe and refused to take a mate.

Siberian Crane, white-naped crane and hooded crane. A grand total of 635,967 waterbirds from 95 species was counted. The most common species group counted was the Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans) ...