Following his work on Taiwan's extant and endangered bird species, in 1996 Yang began a five-year project painting the world's cranes. Supported by Winbond Electronics (a subsidiary of Walsin Lihwa), the project took him across five continents.
繼台灣特有與瀕絕鳥類後，1996 年，楊恩生在華邦電贊助下展開為期 5 年的「世界鶴」畫作專案，足跡踏遍 5 大洲。