A vulnerable red-crowned crane chick ventureed outside at Whipsnade Zoo. The newborn chick walked around with its mother, Blossom, in its enclosure at the zoo. Red-crowned cranes, sometimes known ...

It gets its name from the red patch of feathers on top of its head. There are only two major populations of this crane left in the wild — one group lives year-round in Japan and the other spends ...

Hokkaido is home to about 1,800 of these birds--more than half the global population of red-crowned cranes, according to conservationists. Most of them inhabit eastern Hokkaido.

Hokkaido’s parks hold everything from crystal clear caldera lakes to deep forests, mysterious green algae balls, red-crowned cranes ... “However, the crane is one of the iconic animals ...

From admiring the drift ice to seeing the iconic red-crowned crane in its home turf, we round up some of the best activities that showcase its natural diversity. In Japan’s northernmost island ...