Sentences with phrase «endangered whooping»

Every year, North America's critically endangered Whooping Cranes travel back and forth along a 4,000 - kilometer corridor linking their nesting grounds in Canada and their winter home in Texas.

It turns out that the endangered whooping crane passes crucial wisdom down the generations.

It's not just humans who learn from their elders — it turns out the endangered whooping crane can pass wisdom down the generations as well.

Not exact matches

Wetlands are widely valued as natural pollution filters and as habitat for endangered species such as the Yuma clapper rail, whooping crane and least tern.

Fewer than 500 whooping cranes live in the wild in the United States, making them the world's most endangered crane species, said Tom MacKenzie a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday.

Whooping cranes are protected by two federal laws: the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, points out that recovery programs for critically endangered species such as the condor and whooping crane are valuable testing grounds.

Less than 20 of the enormous North American whooping crane were alive in 1940, and the bird was declared endangered in 1967.

He's Davis Okoye, a former special - ops soldier turned primatologist, who is eager to open a can of whoop - ass on poachers foolish enough to threaten endangered species like George, the albino gorilla he's sheltering at a San Diego wildlife sanctuary.

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Tragically, these are the sixth and seventh shooting deaths of reintroduced endangered U.S. whooping cranes in 2011.

There is no hint that the Interior Department will cease using the Endangered Species Act and other laws to shut down oil and gas drilling while ignoring the growing slaughter of eagles and whooping cranes by wind turbines.

An analysis by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) shows that more than 30,000 turbines overlap with federally protected bird habitat, including 24,000 in the migratory corridor of the whooping crane and 3,000 in breeding grounds of the endangered Greater Sage - Grouse.

In your issue paper on that critically endangered species, we read that 2,433 wind turbines — and their power lines which are so deadly to these birds — have been erected in the United States portion of the Whooping Crane migrating corridor, and that thousands more are to come (1).

But ABC said further that, if not done right, wind energy also poses a serious threat to various species of birds, including birds of prey such as the Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Ferruginous Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Short - eared Owl, and Flammulated Owl; endangered and threatened species such as the California Condor, Kirtland's Warbler, Whooping Crane, Snail Kite, Marbled Murrelet, Hawaiian Goose, and Hawaiian Petrel; and other species of special conservation concern such as the Bicknell's Thrush, Sprague's Pipit, Cerulean Warbler, Oak Titmouse, Lewis's Woodpecker, Brewer's Sparrow, Long - billed Curlew, Bay - breasted Warbler, and Blue - winged Warbler.

, the elephants, orangutans, Whooping Cranes, California Condors, black footed ferrets and so many other endangered animals will thank us.

One only has to look at the courageous examples out there — the man who single - handedly saved a species of snail, or the man that courted a rare whooping crane for three years in an effort to get her to lay eggs — to see that sometimes, one person can make a huge difference in ensuring the survival of an endangered species.