Wild Whooping Crane Chick Hatches at Necedah National Wildlife RefugeThe Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) is celebrating another success in its efforts to reintroduce a wild migratory whooping crane population in eastern North America. A whooping crane chick hatched this week at Necedah National ... Continue reading First Whooping Cranes of the "Class of 2009" Arrive at Necedah ...The eight chicks are members of the “Class of 2009”, which will be the ninth group of endangered whooping cranes to take part in a project conducted by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), a coalition of public and private ... Continue reading
Ecobirder: Whooping CranesHere are some more pics of the two whooping cranes that I photographed flying over Necedah, NWR last October. The whooping crane, or whooper as it is frequently called, is found only in North America. It is the tallest bird in North ... Continue reading
Newly hatched chicks for Whooping Cranes, California Condors, and ...Less than a week after a pair of endangered Whooping Cranes in the reintroduced Wisconsin population hatched a captive-produced egg, another pair has hatched an egg that was laid in the wild. The chick hatched on June 14 or 15 from a ... Continue reading
Endangered whooping cranes produce offspring in Wis.; same pair ...Endangered cranes produce offspring in Wis.NECEDAH, Wis. — A pair of whooping cranes that produced a chick in 2006 that now migrates between Florida and Wisconsin has done it again. Continue reading
Wisconsin Whooping Cranes hatch chick | Great Lakes Echo(WI) Birder's World - A pair of Whooping Cranes in Wood County, Wisconsin, are parents after the egg in their nest hatched yesterday. The birds, known as 12-02. Continue reading
Wisconsin Whooping Cranes hatch chick - Field of View - Birder's ...A pair of Whooping Cranes in Wood County, Wisconsin, are parents after the egg in their nest hatched yesterday. The birds, known as 12-02 and 19-04, had nested north of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in late April but later abandoned ... Continue reading
Whooping CranesExciting News for Whooping Cranes Two Wisconsin whooping crane chicks have hatched in the wild during the past 10 days! On June 11, Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) biologists decided to check the nest of cranes numbered ... Continue reading
First Cranes of the Class of 2009 Arrive at Necedah NWR, June 27 ...The chicks comprise the first cohort of young whooping cranes to arrive by private aircraft from the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., where the birds hatched and learned to follow costumed ... Continue reading
Whooping CranesThe endangered North American whooping crane has a remarkable story. Starting in 2001 (using a method pioneered by Bill Lishman and Joe Duff with Canada Geese) a flock of baby whoopers raised in captivity in Wisconsin was trained to ... Continue reading
|