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The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, [3] [1] named for its "whooping" calls. Along with the sandhill crane ( Antigone canadensis ), it is one of only two crane species native to North America, and it is also the tallest North American bird species. [ 3 ]
The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.
In 2001, the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership raised whooping crane (Grus americana) chicks in Wisconsin's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge then guided them to the Chassahowitzka NWR for the winter. Despite severe mortality from hurricanes in 2007, the re-introduction has been successful and by 2010 there were up to 105 migrating birds ...
Only about 80-to-85 whooping cranes currently live in Wisconsin, Lacy said. Sandhill cranes were "nearly extirpated from the state of Wisconsin" in the early 1900s, Lacy said.
A group of Oklahoma hunters are accused of killing endangered whooping cranes and hiding the bodies — but one of the birds wasn’t dead.. The four men, all between 32 and 43 years old, shot the ...
Young whooping cranes completing their first migration, from Wisconsin to Florida, following an ultralight aircraft from Operation Migration. Operation Migration was a nonprofit, charitable organization, which developed a method using ultralight aircraft to teach migration to captive-raised, precocial bird species such as Canada geese, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and endangered whooping ...
Nov. 7—AUSTIN — On Nov. 1, the first pair of whooping cranes of the year were spotted flying toward the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the southwest side of San Antonio Bay. Their arrival ...
Bird life includes ducks, herons, egrets, ibises, roseate spoonbills, and the endangered whooping crane, whose population has recovered significantly since the 1940s. Other fauna include American alligators, collared peccaries, snakes, and bobcats, which inhabit the refuge's grasslands, blackjack oak thickets, freshwater ponds, and marshes.