Meet the Class of 2013 Whooping Cranes
Hatch-year 2013 of the Eastern Flock
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Personality and Training: How did she get the name Hawkeye? ICF staff used the theme of TV sitcoms or sitcom characters when they named the new chicks. (A change in the numbering system is under discussion.) Hawkeye is named after Captain Ben "Hawkeye" Pierce of the old TV show M*A*S*H. She is a skilled tadpole and dragonfly hunter.

Hawkeye and the other DAR chicks were costume reared and then transported to Horicon Wildlfe Refuge for release on September 3, 2013. There they will (experts hope) mingle with other wild Whooping cranes and Sandhill cranes—and follow them to learn the flock's southward migration route.