Sentences with phrase «whooping cranes»

«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.

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.

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

He has written two analysis pieces, one on wind turbine bird kill counting methodology and one on whooping crane mortality, which completely contradict the findings of hundreds of PhDs, professionals and credible organizations working in the field.

Several factors present in the oil sands region, including exposure to tailings ponds, poses a threat to the survival and recovery of the Canadian wild whooping crane population.

He describes the sixth and seventh shooting deaths of whooping cranes raised in this federal program and released in the United States this year.

These cranes — including each of those senselessly killed by people — represent an investment of hope for whooping cranes to wing their way back to a more certain future.

The telemetric eggs, sized and painted to look just like whooping crane eggs, continually measure their ambient temperature and humidity, record how often the parent turns the eggs, and use a light sensor to detect when the eggs are being sat upon.

At Patuxent, we have been raising whooping crane chicks for 45 years; the species had reached a low of about 16 adult birds by the late 1930s and was in grave danger of extinction, as they still are today.

At Maryland's Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge and other captive breeding sites, adult whooping cranes produce chicks and biologists hand - raise them, using special methods designed to prepare the chicks for life in the wild.

When the birds migrated last spring there were 26 whooping cranes left — in the entire population of the species.

The majestic whooping crane moves south with its young (right).

New research on endangered whooping cranes suggests that social learning plays a critical role.

Over the past 60 years, conservation efforts have brought global whooping crane numbers up from 16 to over 500, and successful migration is key to the species» survival.

Analyzing the spatial patterns of the sightings, they found that Whooping Cranes prefer habitat that includes a mix of croplands and wetlands and are more attracted by a single large wetland basin than multiple smaller basins.

Niemuth and his colleagues hope that their model can help to guide the siting of new wind, oil, and electrical transmission infrastructure to minimize potential conflicts with Whooping Cranes, as well as identifying opportunities for wetland restoration.

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.

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.

Joe Duff, the co-founder of Operation Migration, an organization that helps young whooping cranes on their first migration from Wisconsin to Florida, called the shooters «vandals that want to kill something, putting their own moods, feelings and aggressions on a creature that doesn't deserve it.»

«Whooping cranes exist today in large part because of the captive breeding program.

Whooping crane groups that included a seven - year - old adult deviated 38 % less from a migratory straight - line path between their Wisconsin breeding grounds and Florida wintering grounds, the researchers found.

Only this first migration is human - assisted; from then on the young birds travel on their own, usually in the company of other whooping cranes.

The study shows the migration training for captive - born whooping cranes is working, Mueller said.

Whooping cranes form long - term monogamous relationships, and over half of couples first get together before they are both sexually mature

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

And with only about 430 whooping cranes now in the wild, each bird counts.

As for us, the USGS whooping crane team, we will continue raising chicks and working with our dedicated partners to restore this species because we believe that chick by chick, bird by bird, these cranes will and should have a chance to one day thrive in the wild again.

This report maps historical records of whooping crane flight paths and landing points in relation to Alberta's bitumen (oil) sands region.

Bald and Golden Eagles are protected under both MBTA and BGEPA, and many species listed under the ESA are also protected under the MBTA, such as Whooping Cranes, California Condors, Least Terns, Kirtland's Warblers, Northern Aplomado Falcons, Roseate Terns, and Piping Plovers.

Record - breaking drought is leading to some coastal marshes being saltier than the ocean, and toxic red tide is washing along the shore, threatening whooping cranes.

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.

A captive breeding programme was implemented, which required scientists to dress in white sheets and wear arm puppets shaped like an adult whooping crane's neck and head when feeding them.

Whooping crane chicks have definite personalities; chick L10 was shy but blossomed into a rascal, and chick L8 had an early tendency toward being a bit of a bully, but eventually learned to get along with his peers.

The eastern US population of whooping cranes (Grus americana) spend summers in Wisconsin and winters in Florida.

Take for instance the computerized eggs that the Calgary Zoo in Canada is using to try to bring back the critically endangered whooping crane.

Watchful Crip, one of three whooping cranes in captivity, stands guard over two eggs laid by mate at New Orleans zoo.

The surviving remnant of the great race of whooping cranes, hardly more than two dozen birds, will be «escorted» this fall from Canada to Texas.

The answer is that the presence of the whooping cranes there is historic and was one of the main reasons why the refuge was established in 1937.

The whooping crane once inhabited the central part of the continent from the Arctic Coast to central Mexico.

Now the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Canadian Wildlife Service and the National Audubon Society are partners in a project designed to save the whooping crane from extinction.

This summer a scientist hovering in a helicopter over the wild country south of Canada's Great Slave Lake looked down and spotted four whooping cranes, three adults and a young one.

But as the prairies were tamed and planted, the whooping cranes dwindled steadily.

At a press conference that afternoon Wake Forest's Bones McKinney, the last of the whooping cranes, took a long slug from a Royal Crown Cola, flashed his wild red socks, fluttered his arms unhappily and said of his semifinal round opponent, Ohio State, that «I'd take most any player they've got and use him instead of mine.»

Thus there may be many well - intentioned and earnest sportsmen at Tanforan, say, or Hialeah who consider conservation the concern only of some kind of nuts who probably want to turn all the nation's race tracks into refuges for the whooping crane.

For example, the whooping crane, though almost extinct and living as a ward of man, has come to be a kind of shorthand symbol for nature.

They have helped entomologists capture rare insects on disappearing virgin prairie, taken part in a skit on the whooping crane's perilous migration, learned to identify invasive weeds choking sensitive waterways, done surveys on native bee numbers, and signed petitions to pass laws to better conserve monarch butterfly habitat.