Whooping Crane

October - December, 2009
Welcome and Orientation

The Migration is Underway! Follow the story of a record-making 20 endangered Whooping Crane chicks making their first journey south as ultralight airplanes show them the way! Weekly "countdown" reports begin September 4. Then join the chicks' first migration south with daily reports (and Operation Migration's live CraneCam and TrikeCam) starting in October!
Get Started Fall 2009 Winter/Spring 2010 Photos Operation Migration	Map/Data Meet the Cranes Latest News	Migration News
Enjoy! Stories, activities, videos, pictures, and slideshows	Twenty Chicks Migrating!	Explore! Lessons, Activities and Information for the Classroom
Questions Asked by students and answered by the expert	Other News Class of 2009 Timeline Classrooms in Action: Students and Cranes How You Can Help Whooping Cranes

In Collaboration with Operation Migration and the entire Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership

"The wildlife equivalent to putting a man on the moon!"
--Marshall Jones, USFWS, on the human-assisted migrations to reintroduce whooping cranes to Eastern North America