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The Wetlands Education Center is located in Port Aransas and is an artificial wetlands seagrass pond that occupies 3.5 acres between the MSI Visitors Center (PMSEC) and the South Jetty. Visitors can tour a boardwalk around the pond to view the vegetation and the wildlife, and view educational signage.
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 ...
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge is a 115,324-acre (466.7 km 2) [1] ... McNulty, Faith, The Wildlife Stories of Faith McNulty, Chap.6 "The Whooping Crane" (pages 121 ...
St. Charles Bay is an inlet of Aransas Bay in Aransas County, Texas.It is flanked by Lamar peninsula on the west and Blackjack peninsula on the east. The bay hosts a valued ecosystem for the endangered whooping crane, and is a prime location for birding and fishing.
It is supplied with seawater from the Gulf of Mexico via Aransas Bay, and fed freshwater from the Aransas River, Mission River and Copano Creek. As an estuary, the bay is home to a diverse ecosystem consisting of various birds including the endangered whooping crane, and numerous finfish including the redfish as well as shellfish such as ...
There were fewer than 20 whooping cranes left in the world in the 1940s. The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge helped pull the species from extinction.
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 ]
A whooping crane census in 1941 counted only 15 migratory birds. Currently, 178 migratory birds winter and breed in coastal Texas, primarily in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. [5] Annual population surveys are conducted by the Canadian Wildlife Service. A few breeding pairs of the peregrine falcon also nest in the range.