September 14, 2016 is a big day for nine young cranes. They are precious passengers aboard a small private aircraft, traveling from a wildlife center in Maryland to the marshes of Wisconsin. They fly in individual sturdy cardboard boxes sized for a standing whooping crane. The boxes are then driven in air-conditioned vans to White River Marsh Wildlife Area, the staging grounds for last year’s aircraft-led Class of 2015.

Operation Migration Crane Cam