Countdown to Migration: September 8, 2006
Update
Your Training Timeline!
You can add "chick check-ups" to your own timeline for this year's migration. Milestones and key events (with links to photos) for the newest members of the Eastern flock are listed here: Would you like to know each chick's weight? How about its leg band color? You'll find it on their life history pages. Click to see your favorite chick's biography here: Crane Quiz #1 While you're on the biography pages, look for some answers. We've got four questions in this week's Crane Quiz to help you meet the flock: 1. Which chick was the very first to hatch from an egg laid by wild parents in the new flock? 2. This chick has made so many landings in the swamp during training that the pilots gave him private flying lessons. He's very independent! 3. Which chick weighed the most at the pre-migration health check? Which one weighed the least? STRATEGY TIP: Remember that the cranes are numbered according to hatching order (age). How can you use this information to make predictions before you look for the answers? What factors might affect weight? 4. He always wanted to be the top dog (top crane) in Cohort 3 (the youngest chicks). He recently got mad when two adult whoopers showed up on the training strip and chased them off! Which chick? It's been a busy week at the Wisconsin wildlife refuge where the chicks are at "flight school." Who are these gangly and special young birds? Why are a few people hanging around silently with crane puppets while wearing baggy white sacks to hide themselves? Find answers in the first of six kids' booklets, starting this week. Plan on one booklet each week as a fun way to build background for the coming migration. Each booklet comes in .pdf format, ready to print, fold, and enjoy. Start here: You're Invited: 6th Annual Whooping Crane Festival September 16 Are you lucky enough to live anywhere near Tomah, Wisconsin? If so, come to the Whooping Crane Festival on the grounds of the nearby (17 miles away) Necedah Airport on September 16. It's your chance to see the ultralight planes and meet the migration team at the festive outdoor event! Countdown to Migration: Posted Every Friday E-mail Summaries are posted to registered participants on FRIDAYS: Sep 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; Oct 6, 13, 20, 27; Nov. 3, 10, 17. . .or until this year's newest Eastern whooper chicks reach their winter home in Florida! Pre-migration: Each
Friday, a brief e-mail notice gives current newsy tidbits and announces
a downloadable booklet for building background.
Tip: Bookmark the Whooping Crane Home Page
Put news, maps and activities at your fingertips with a bookmark here: See You Next Friday, September 16! Journey
North is pleased to feature this educational adventure presented
in cooperation with the Whooping
Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP). Copyright
2006 Journey North. All Rights Reserved.
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