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  2. Operation Migration - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Sandhill crane - Wikipedia

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    The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their habitat such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water.

  4. The best US States for bird watching revealed - AOL

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    From Snow Geese to Sandhill cranes, there’s so much to see. 9. New York. ... Make a day of your birding trip and capture the movements of the summer and fall migration. 10. Florida.

  5. Bill Lishman - Wikipedia

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    With Operation Migration he flew numerous migrations with geese and cranes, and in 2000 did the major path-finding for the route that has been used to establish the migration of the Whooping Crane between Wisconsin and Florida. Lishman adopted eight sandhill cranes in spring 1995. Each had to be exercised, separately, for three hours daily, by ...

  6. As fall bird migration delights with owls and sandhill cranes ...

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    Nearly 1,000 casualties highlight need to dim city lights. Meanwhile, here are chances to safely view migratory birds.

  7. Why are there so many sandhill cranes in Wisconsin right now?

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    Cranes prepare for migration in wetlands with agricultural fields nearby. ... year-round habitats in places like Florida and Cuba. Sandhill cranes in Wisconsin are part of the "Eastern Population ...

  8. Crane (bird) - Wikipedia

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    In a study of sandhill cranes in Florida, seven of the 22 pairs studied remained together for an 11-year period. Of the pairs that separated, 53% was due to the death of one of the pair, 18% was due to divorce, and the fate of 29% of pairs was unknown. [21]

  9. The One Thing You Have to Do in Every State - AOL

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    Nebraska: View the Sandhill Crane Migration. One of only two kinds of cranes in North America, sandhill cranes converge on central Nebraska's Platte River to rest as they head to breeding grounds ...