Tag: Whooping Cranes

Birds, Reviews

Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

December 22, 2019 by Mark No Comments

Since the last notice of him on this blogsite (in June 2018), Steve Burrows has published two more novels in his terrific “Birder Murder”...

News

Big Whoop, Indeed: Whooping Cranes in Louisiana!

April 27, 2016 by Meredith Mann 1 Comment

In the fight against extinction, score one—actually, make that two—for Whooping Cranes. For the first time in 75 years, a pair has successfully nested in...

Reviews

A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World

March 4, 2016 by Carrie 3 Comments

As a child of the eighties, I experienced a number of elegies for Whooping Cranes. Commentators seemed to take their extinction as inevitable, although...

News

Last Flight for Operation Migration

January 26, 2016 by Meredith Mann No Comments

It looks like Whooping Cranes will have to find another way to fly. The U.S. federal government’s Operation Migration program, which has used ultralight...

Trips

Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

January 27, 2015 by Corey 6 Comments

This year was my third year helping to lead trips at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Like my two previous visits I...

News

Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

February 8, 2014 by Meredith Mann 4 Comments

As if the last month’s revelation of a pair of murdered Whooping Cranes wasn’t devastating enough, the bad news just keeps on coming. Another pair of...

News

Whooping Cranes Shot and Killed in Kentucky

January 15, 2014 by Meredith Mann 3 Comments

It’s deja vu all over again, sadly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. The...

Birding

Whooping Crane Ancestry

February 26, 2013 by James 1 Comment

So what’s so special about seeing the resident re-introduced Whooping Cranes in Florida? According to the ABA, they are not countable. And when you see...

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