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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 ...
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 ...
There are only two suprafamilial clades (natural groups) among the birds traditionally classified as Gruiformes. Rails (), flufftails (Sarothruridae), finfoots and sungrebe (Heliornithidae), adzebills (Aptornithidae), trumpeters (), limpkin (), and cranes compose the suborder Grues and are termed "core-Gruiformes". [4]
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 HBW/BirdLife and Clements checklists place the demoiselle crane and blue crane in the genus Anthropoides, and the wattled crane in the monospecific genus Bugeranus, leaving only the red-crowned, whooping, common, hooded, and black-necked cranes in the genus Grus. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Robert Porter Allen (24 April 1905 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania – 28 June 1963) was an American ornithologist and environmentalist.He achieved worldwide attention for his rescue operations of the whooping crane (Grus Americana) in the 1940s and 1950s.Allen helped save the roseate spoonbill from extinction. [1]
George William Archibald (born 13 July 1946) is the co-founder of the International Crane Foundation and was the inaugural winner [1] of the 2006 Indianapolis Prize.. Archibald was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada to Donald Edison and Annie Letitia ("Lettie") (née MacLeod) Archibald.