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Confirmed Whooping Crane Sightings, Spring 2006
Date
# of Birds
Location Description
Mar 11-Apr. ?

Mar 24-Apr 9?

1, age 2

1, first-year
(not together)
Alda, NE (This 2-year-old got separated from its parents on first migration south so has never been to Aransas. It wintered in south TX with sandhills.)
Mar 31
2 + 0 young
Day County, SD (near Roslyn)
Mar 30-Apr 1
2 + 0 young
Dawson County, NE (downstream of Overton Bridge)
Apr 1-4
2 + 1 young
Buffalo County, NE (banded)
Apr 5
2 + 1 young
Sully County, SD (near Gettysburg; same family as above)
Apr 8
2 + 0
Blaine County, NE (near Brewster)
Apr 11
8 + 3
Stafford County, KS at Quivira NWR
(2:1, 2:1, 2:1, 2:0
One banded per family)
Apr 12
5
Nance County, NE (near Fullerton and Hwy 22)
Apr 12-13
3 + 1
Antelope County, NE (Creighton area)
Apr 13-17
3 + 0
Divide County, ND (Crosby area)
Apr 14
3 + 0
Beadle County, SD (Wolsey area)
April 15- (still there)
2 + 1
Foster County, ND (Carrington area)
April 16
2 + 0
Ward County, ND (flying over Minto with 25 sandhill cranes)
Apr 10-14
Several possible sightings from North Dakota





 

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