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Contributions from two organizations have tripled the amount of a reward offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot and killed a Whooping Crane near Cayuga, Indiana...
After all the bad news about Whooping Cranes and their human caretakers — the shooting death of an adult female , the vandalism at the Operation Migration hangar , and the recent crash-landing of the top-cover Cessna in a farm field in southern Illinois...
A seven-year-old Whooping Crane — the only successful breeding female from the eastern migratory population — was shot and killed in western Indiana, near the town of Cayuga in central Vermillion County, officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
December 9, 2009: Whooping Crane shot, reward offered Joe Duff, co-founder and lead pilot of Operation Migration , said today that the hangar used by the pilots and crew in Necedah, Wisconsin, has been vandalized, and many of its contents were destroyed...
In a blog post on Tuesday, I noted that I would be leading a media tour to Necedah NWR and the International Crane Foundation on Thursday. It was one of many tours for attendees of this year's meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists ,...
The 2009 class of young Whooping Cranes will depart from their home at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin this Saturday, October 10. They'll fly behind ultralight planes piloted by the good folks at Operation Migration, who will lead them...
Operation Migration's new CraneCam is quite a treat. It offers a behind-the-scenes view of Whooping Cranes at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, home base of the eastern reintroduction project. Viewers can watch online as Operation Migration’s pilots...
Ten days ago, we learned that one of this summer's two wild-hatched Whooping Crane chicks in Wisconsin had died. Now, the second chick appears to have died. According to the Whooping Crane tracking and monitoring team, the chick, which was hatched...
A Whooping Crane chick that hatched at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin last month has died. Richard Urbanek, the federal biologist who tracks the birds, says the last time he saw the chick was at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 28. He...
Two adult Whooping Cranes walk toward their brown-feathered chick, which is visible in a small clearing in the vegetation at left. Photo by Richard Urbanek, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Less than a week after a pair of endangered Whooping Cranes in...
A pair of Whooping Cranes in Wood County, Wisconsin, are parents after the egg in their nest hatched yesterday. The birds, known as 12-02 and 19-04, had nested north of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in late April but later abandoned the nest. Their...
Piping Plover (right), Northern Spotted Owl, Whooping Crane, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and Maui Parrotbill are among the bird species that will benefit from new federal conservation grants. The grants, announced yesterday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar...
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Apr 21 2009, 10:09 AM
by
Matt Mendenhall
Tags: Whooping Crane, Marbled Murrelet, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Golden Eagle, Maui Parrotbill, Northern Spotted Owl, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Western Snowy Plover, Piping Plover, Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, Bald Eagle, Northern Aplomado Falcon, Least Bell’s Vireo, California Gnatcatcher, Lesser Prairie-Chicken
The only wild flock of Whooping Cranes experienced its worst winter on record in terms of bird deaths this year, according to Tom Stehn, Whooping Crane coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Stehn is based at the Aransas National Wildlife...
I'm sure you all know that our friends in Texas are in the midst of the worst drought since 1918. The New York Times wrote this last week: "Much of the state has not had a significant rainfall since August. Winter wheat crops have failed. Ponds...
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