Winter & Spring

Getting Started

• Key Whooping Crane Activities: Winter & Spring
• How Does a Whooping Crane Sound?
• How Big is a Whooping Crane?
• Crane ID: Will You Know a Whooper?
• Big Black-and-White Birds: Which are Whooping Cranes?

Tracking Whooping Crane Migration

• Purchase a Tracking Map or Make Your Own

Conservation: Bringing Back an Endangered Species

• The Goal: A New Eastern Flock of 125 Cranes by 2020
• The Progress: Population Graphs of the reintroduced Eastern Flock and the natural Western Flock
• The Challenges of Survival: Learning from Life Histories (Key questions, and links to Eastern Flock biographies)
• Reproduction: Nesting Summary, Eastern Flock
• The World's Whooping Cranes: Population Totals
• Latest Reintroduction Effort: A New Flock for Louisiana
• Research: Why are some wild whooping cranes now getting radio bands?
• Scientist Interview: Jessica Rempel and Telemetry

Winter & Spring Lessons

• Two Migratory Flocks: Eastern Flock and Western Flock
• Overview: Whooping Crane Reintroduction and Migration
• Leg Bands: Codes and Colors
• Quick-view Band Code Charts: Class of 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
• Meet the Cranes of the New Eastern Flock: Bio Pages
• Meet the Eastern Flock: Getting-to-Know-You Activities
• Eastern Cranes on the Florida Wintering Grounds
• Western Cranes on the Texas Wintering Grounds
• Eastern Cranes: Average Days in Florida?
• Winter Home: St. Marks NWR, Florida
• Photo Gallery: Cranes on the Wintering Grounds
• Comparing Ultralight-led Migrations 2001-2011
• Radio Telemetry: Tracking the Cranes
• Which Cranes Get PTTs?
• Signals from the Sky: About Those PTTs
• How Birds Fly: A Journey North In-Depth Lesson
• Up Up and Away: Thermals and Updrafts
• Which Are the Whoopers? Identifying from an Airplane
• Were They Whoopers? You Be the Judge!
• A Day in the Life of a Migrating Wild Whooper: How High? How Fast? How Far?
• Dance Like the Cranes
• Mates for Life?
• How Does a Whooping Crane Pick a Mate?
• Dominant or Submissive? Leader or Follower?
• Migration Dangers
• Whooping Crane Chicks: Preparing for an Amazing Journey!
• Population Dynamics: Challenges of Rebuilding an Endangered Species
• Whooping Crane Population Growth: Why So Slow?
• How Many Cranes in the Eastern Flock?
• A Tale of Two Cranes: How Do Wild and Captive-raised Whoopers Compare?
• Discovery of the Canadian Nesting Grounds
• Canadian Nesting Grounds Map/Activities
• Sizing Up Territories
• Where Can You See Whoopers?
• Blue and Crabby: Whooping Crane Winter Diet
• The Crab Connection: Crabs in Trouble Equals Cranes in Trouble
• How Do Experts Recapture a Wild Whooping Crane?
• A New Life for Two Whooping Crane Chicks (Slide Show)
• Spring Return: What's Next? (Slide Show)
• Lucky LaCreek Pair (Slide Show)
• The Big Egg Hunt (Slide Show)
• Eggs From Many Places: Building Genetic Diversity
• WCEP Duties: Who Does What?
• Nesting Research: Hoping for Hatches
• What is Roosting?
• Glossary

Before you report a crane sighting: Are you certain it's a Whooper? Please see WCEP form.

 

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