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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 ]
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 ...
Cropsey served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1979 to 1982 and from 1993 to 1998. He was vice chairman of the State Board of Canvassers from 1999 to 2001, and chairman in 2001. Cropsey was a member of the Michigan Senate from 1983 to 1986 and also from 2003 to 2010, serving as majority floor leader during his second term (2007 to ...
The Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Friday voted 4-0 to accept a staff report finding that three Republican candidates for an open U.S. Senate seat, including the presumed front-runner, have ...
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson released statements praising the Court's ruling. [ 8 ] Media reaction to the decision was generally positive, with commentators deriding the Board's initial refusal to certify the petition as anti-democratic and a sign of increasing polarization in the U.S. political ...
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 ...
The American burying beetle, extinct in Michigan and listed as endangered in the United States. There are six species of threatened beetles in Michigan. Of these, three are species of special concern, one is threatened and one is endangered. One additional species is extinct in Michigan, although it previously had a viable population in the state.
The bald eagle had been on the nation’s Great Seal since the Revolutionary War, but it was never codified in law as the official bird.