«Research on Whooping Crane habitat use throughout the migration corridor is crucial in helping us ensure that we are restoring and protecting habitat for a growing population of Whooping Cranes in the right places,» states Wade Harrell, the U.S. and Wildlife Service's Whooping Crane Recovery Coordinator. (sciencedaily.com)
Working with records from a long - term effort to reintroduce critically endangered whooping cranes in the Eastern U.S., a University of Maryland - led research team found evidence that these long - lived birds learn their migration route from older cranes, and get better at it with age. (sciencedaily.com)
Tragically, these are the sixth and seventh shooting deaths of reintroduced endangered U.S. whooping cranes in 2011. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)