Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
$1 Fine for Killing an Endangered Species
The punishment doesn’t seem to fit the crime for two individuals who pleaded guilty to the 2009 shooting of an endangered whooping crane in Indiana at the end of March. - posted by: alicia graef
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Necedah loses crane program
Operation Migration, which brought international attention to the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge with its ultralight aircraft, will soon call a new place its home. - By Gail Boehm, Star-Times
The DMZ's Thriving Resident: The Crane
Rare cranes have flourished in the world's unlikeliest sanctuary, the heavily mined demilitarized zone between North and South Korea - By Eric Wagner, Smithsonian magazine, April 2011
GPS helps in study of whoopers
A recent project to learn more about the endangered birds’ migratory pattern started last year when nine whooping crane chicks were captured and banded with a GPS transmitter, said Walter Wehtje of the Nebraska Crane Trust south of Alda. -
By Amy Schweitzer
By Amy Schweitzer
amy.schweitzer@theindependent.com
Xcel Energy pulls out of wind farm plan over rare bird concerns
In the SEC filing, it said a major factor in the decision to pullout was the "adverse impact this project could have on endangered or threatened species." Jeff Towner of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said there are two species in question -- "[t]he endangered whooping crane and the threatened piping plover." - by Mark Steil, Minnesota Public Radio
Hooded crane a first in Neb.
Photo by Thomas D. Mangelsen/www.mangelsen.com GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — A rare hooded crane has been seen for the first time ever near Grand Island. - By Amy Schweitzer, WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
2 found guilty in shooting death of whooping crane
A Cayuga, Ind., man and juvenile have pleaded guilty in the 2009 shooting death of a matriarch of Wisconsin's whooping crane population, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said. - By Don Behm, Journal Sentinel
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