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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 ]
Michigan State warming up before the Michigan Wolverines vs. Michigan State Spartans football game at Spartan Stadium in 2001. In the 2001 game, also known as "Clockgate", Michigan entered the game ranked No. 6 in the nation. With under three minutes left, the Spartans received the ball at midfield, trailing 24–20.
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.
Michigan State and Penn State play for the Land Grant Trophy, so named because Penn State University and Michigan State University are the nation's oldest land-grant universities as founded in 1855. When Penn State joined the Big Ten Conference in 1993, the Nittany Lions and Spartans have played each other for the trophy in the last week of ...
Columnist Graham Couch grades Michigan State's performance in the Spartans' 23-19 loss at Boston College on a scale of 1-10.. OFFENSE: 5. So much of what MSU did offensively — and shorthanded no ...
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 ...
Michigan State's Aidan Chiles, left, throws the ball to Ademola Faleye during the second quarter in the game against Purdue on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing.
Michigan State leads, 50–19–2 [1] Trophy series: Michigan State leads, 50–15–1: Largest victory: Michigan State, 54–0 (1957) Longest win streak: Michigan State, 8 (1950–1957) Longest unbeaten streak: Michigan State, 9 (1970–1982) Current win streak: Indiana, 1 (2024)