Winter & Spring

Conservation

• 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
• The World's Whooping Cranes: Population Totals
• Death of Crane #217: Citizen Tip Leads to Closure of Whooping Crane Shooting in Indiana
• Whooping Crane Total Population (ALL flocks)
• How Do Experts ReCapture a Wild Whooping Crane?
• Why Captive Breeding?
• Eggs From Many Places: Building Genetic Diversity
• Towering Troubles: Bird Collisions With Communications Towers
• Stamp Story: Whooper Stamp Carries Conservation Message
• Fresh Water for ALL Texans: Enough for Both Humans and Wildlife? (Water Rights)
• Relationship between inflows, crabs, salinities and whooping cranes (Water Rights)
• How Can You Be a Water Saver?
• Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz (Measure YOUR impact on Earth's resources!)
• Migrating Eastern Flock Whooper Found Dead: Press Release, Nov. 22, 2004
• Whooping Crane Shot: Press Release, Nov. 2003
• Bird Flu: Tom Stehn Speaks
• Video Clips From the Field: The Work at Patuxent
• Golden Eagles as Crane Predators

General Biology

• How Does a Whooping Crane Sound?
• Craning to Fit In: Adaptations that Help Cranes Survive
• Crane ID: Will You Know a Whooper?
• Watching Walking Whoopers (JN for Kids)
• Dr. George Archibald: Dancing With the Cranes
• Mates for Life?
• Eastern Flock Family Tree: A Question About Siblings
• Kirke's Science Project: Measuring Stress in Cranes
• The Eastern Flock "Family Tree:" What if Whooping Crane Siblings Get Together as Mates?
• Eggs From Many Places: Building Genetic Diversity

Artistic Expression

• Amy's 3-D Pop-up Paper Crane
• Big Paper Maché Cranes
• Origami Folded Whooping Crane
• Mrs. Hartman's Crane Folding Instructions
• Anatomy Study: Draw a Life-size Whooping Crane
• Whooping Cranes' Journey (Poem, Eastern Flock)
• A Migration Poem by Owen Neill
• My Great Story: Whooping Cranes, Year 2200 (Poem about Eastern Flock)

Reintroduction/Crane History

• Endangered Whooping Cranes Killed by Gunshot (Jan. 12, 2011 Press Release)
• Protocol for Operation Migration
• Rescued Eggs Become Eastern Flock's FIRST Chicks!
• Meet the First Family! (Slide show/photo story)
• Banding the New Flock's Wild-born Chicks: Why?
• Crane Capture! #309 and #520 Return to Wisconsin
• The Whooping Crane (Facts: International Crane Foundation)
• Eastern Flock: What is a "Nonessential Experimental Population (NEP)?"
• Choosing a Home for the New Eastern Flock
• Whooping Cranes: The Road to Survival (Facts: U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service)
• Whooping Crane Background Facts
• Bringing Back the Cranes: Comparing Ranges and Exploring Reintroduction
• An Aircraft-Led Migration: Dress Rehearsal For Reintroduction
• Who's Calling? Using Voiceprints to Identify Individual Cranes
• Operation Migration Puts Crane Call Recordings to Work
• Sandhills Return: Migration Experiment a Success!
• Tales Told by Crane Voices (2000-01 Crane Voice Research)
• Crack the Code: Banded Cranes Tell Individual Life Stories
• First Hatchlings for Florida's Non-migratory Flock
• Banding and Capture Myopathy, by Joe Duff
• About the Storm (and Podcast Tribute to the Class of 2006)
• Natural (Western) Flock: Whooping Crane Population Soars to a New Record High
• A Route Change in 2008