Friday, November 16, 2012
Whooping cranes continue their migration through Alabama
Just over a dozen people gathered on a small hill near off of Mt Pisgah Road in Walker County to view a flock of five juvenile whooping cranes as they followed behind two ultralight aircraft Thursday November 15, 2012 as they continued their journey south for the winter. Each year Operation Migration raises whooping cranes that were hatched in captivity and trains them to follow ultralight aircraft to train them to migrate south for the winter. - Frank Couch/fcouch@al.com
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Environmentalists fight for whoopers' water
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The whoopers are back, but even as the famed birds settle in at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge for what promises to be a mild winter, the legal controversy surrounding them lingers. - by Dianna Wray - DWRAY@VICAD.COM
Cranes star in annual festival
The Bosque del Apache community celebrates the "silver anniversary" of its popular Festival of the Cranes this week with six days of activities in and around the central New Mexico U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Refuge through Sunday.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Crane whisperer
Zhao Xisen has managed to help a pair of hooded cranes at Beijing Zoo conceive after seven years of infertility. Sun Ye finds out more. - By Sun Ye (China Daily)
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
14 more whooping cranes to join flock in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS - More than a dozen young whooping cranes are expected to arrive this fall in southwest Louisiana, doubling the number in a flock being reintroduced near the area where the state's last wild flock lived in the 1930s, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says. http://bit.ly/OCddMP
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Rare whooping crane making a comeback
State officials are working to rebuild a historic population of whooping cranes in the marshes of southwest Louisiana, birds that haven't been seen in the state for more than 60 years.http://bit.ly/P273Uc
N.W.T. whooping crane death investigated
An investigation is underway to find if a whooping crane in Wood Buffalo National Park in the Northwest Territories died because of an injury it received while being tagged for research.http://bit.ly/U9AR1T
Wind power takes precedence over protecting endangered cranes
Why is the U.S. government funding and promoting a plan to allow one of North America's rarest birds to be killed by wind turbines? While many environmentalists tout wind power as a source of green energy, the fact that wind turbines pose a threat to birds, including the highly endangered whooping crane, has received little notice.
Putin Pulls Off Latest Feat: Flying With the Birds
MOSCOW — Vladimir V. Putin is the unquestioned supreme leader of Russia, known for his icy stare and steely ways. But now Mr. Putin has taken on a new, perhaps more tender, leadership role. He has guided a flock of birds — through the air.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
A Bird Made of Plastic Forks?
Yesterday's Picnic Utensils Are Today's Fine Art. In a disposable fork, artist Sayaka Ganz might see a wing feather, while a forsaken sandbox shovel transforms into a sea turtle’s flipper. Abandoned plastic objects are, according to Ganz, ideal building materials for sculptures that mimic animals and other natural forms.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Luseland hopes for return of whooping cranes
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Vern Finley likely shot the last two whooping cranes that nested in the large alkali sloughs near Luseland. An old photograph from 1922 shows the two dead birds, already endangered across North America, held up by their necks and two young girls holding the wing tips. Finley, who shot the cranes with a friend, only told his family about the birds a few years before he died. Even in 1922, farmers in the area were irate with Finley and his hunting partner
Wisconsin may start hunting Sandhill cranes
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Our friends to the north in Wisconsin have created a stir after the Wisconsin Conservation Congress was asked if it would support a Sandhill Crane-hunting season. According to the Department of Natural Resources, 2,560 people voted “yes” and 1,271 people voted “no.” On a county-by-county basis, 65 approved it, four rejected it and three tied.
Common Crane being brought back from the brink of extinction
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It's one of the most majestic birds in the British Isles, but the Common Crane has had a troubled past.
It's one of the most majestic birds in the British Isles, but the Common Crane has had a troubled past.
Slimbridge Wetland Centre cranes return
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The birds were reared at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in 2010 and 2011 before being freed into the wild in Somerset as part of the Great Crane Project. .
The birds were reared at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in 2010 and 2011 before being freed into the wild in Somerset as part of the Great Crane Project. .
Charges pending in Indiana whooping crane shooting
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Indiana Conservation Officers, with assistance from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service agents, have completed an investigation into the killing of a male whooping crane in early January in Knox County.
Indiana Conservation Officers, with assistance from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service agents, have completed an investigation into the killing of a male whooping crane in early January in Knox County.
Whooping crane shot with rifle
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/indiana/probe-whooping-crane-shot-with-rifle
State and federal officials are recommending charges against two southwestern Indiana men in the killing of an endangered whooping crane.
State and federal officials are recommending charges against two southwestern Indiana men in the killing of an endangered whooping crane.
Picture This Gallery takes a closer look at 'The Endangered Crane'
http://www.pjstar.com/entertainment/x1347545728/Picture-This-Gallery-takes-a-closer-look-at-The-Endangered-Crane
Their wings unfold like large fans. Their long necks gracefully curve. Their delicate, stilt-like legs seem made for dancing. And, in fact, cranes do dance: When they court, when they nurture their young, when they greet one another.
Their wings unfold like large fans. Their long necks gracefully curve. Their delicate, stilt-like legs seem made for dancing. And, in fact, cranes do dance: When they court, when they nurture their young, when they greet one another.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Fly away: Efforts are helping to save endangered whooping cranes
The process of breeding, hatching and raising endangered whooping cranes to become a sustainable population in the wild was highlighted during the March 3 "Dinner on the Bluff" event at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, rural Lanesboro. - By Lisa Brainard
Climate change threatens birds
Experts warn that an increase in extreme weather events, such as drought, storms and floods that the country has started experiencing may also endanger some species.
Cute chick takes mum for a ride
The four-day-old sandhill crane managed to keep cozy in the cold by wrapping up in its mum's feathers and poking its head out to let out a chirp.
Rescued sandhill crane heads to rehab
Sarah Purcell, a veterinary technician at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, bears a little reminder of the sandhill crane she helped nurse back to health. - By Hannah Winston
Audubon invites locals to massive crane migration
If you’ve never seen tens of thousands of cranes with six-foot wingspans congregating in a mountain valley at once, now’s your chance. - by Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Swan song at Poyang Lake
Nearly 100,000 swans land here every year, according to the Poyang National Nature Reserve. Accompanying them are almost half the world’sswan geese, hooded cranes and white-naped cranes, along with 95% of all oriental storks and 98% of Siberian cranes. For the Siberian crane, the lake is particularly important – only 3,000 of these birds survive, and this is their last remaining winter habitat.
China's Poyang Lake attracts large amount of migratory birds
A flock of grus crane are seen at the Duchang wetland of Poyang Lake in Duchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 20, 2011.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
ARK Tries to Save Crane With Severely Injured Foot
PORT ARANSAS - The Animal Rehabilitation Keep rescues hundreds of birds every year and today was no different when they were called to Flour Bluff to track down a Sandhill Crane with an injured leg.
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