Eastern Flock Chicks: Hatch Year 2006

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Eastern Flock Chicks: Hatch Year 2006
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Group 1
Captive-bred chicks that learned to migrate by following ultralight aircraft.		Note: Tragically, all but one of the "Class of 2006" cranes below were killed on February 2, 2007, when a storm hit their wintering grounds in Florida. The single remaining crane, #615, died in the spring.
Crane #601 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #602 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #604 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #605 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #606 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)
Crane #607 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #608 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #610 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #611 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #612 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)
Crane #613 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #614 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #615 (Died Apr. 30, 2007)	Crane #618 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #619 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)
Crane #620 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #622 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)	Crane #623 (Died Feb. 2, 2007)
Photos Courtesy of Operation Migration, B. Clauss, Patuxent WRC, M. Wellington, ICF
Group 2
Captive-bred Direct Autumn Release (DAR) Captive-bred chicks that learned to migrate by following older cranes		Crane #27-06 (Died May 18, 2017)	Crane #28-06 (Missing/ presumed dead, 2010)	Crane #26-06 (Died April 13, 2007)
Crane #32-06 (Died Jan. 2007)
Group 3
Wild-born A chick that learned to migrate by following her parents.		Crane #W1-06 First wild-born!