Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Tenth group of endangered whooping cranes on guided flight to Florida

By News Staff, The Times-Herald

Eleven young whooping cranes have completed more than one-third of their migration from Wisconsin to Florida. They flew into Kentucky from Illinois Tuesday, landing in Union County, Ky.Only six to seven months old, the cranes have now traveled 463 miles and have another 795 miles to go.