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Where
Can You See Whooping Cranes?
Report Your Sightings!
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| Where
are Whoopers?
map:
ICF
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| A
Family of Whooping Cranes |
In
the Wild:
1. Aransas
National Wildlife Refuge, Texas
(The main flock's winter home, April through October)
2. Lake Kissimmee, Florida (All year round; home of reintroduced
nonmigratory flock)
3. Necedah National Wildlife
Refuge, Wisconsin (The
new Eastern flock's summer home, May-November)
In Captivity:
1. Calgary Zoo
2. International
Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI
3.
San Antonio Zoo
4.
Audubon Zoo, New Orleans, LA
5.
Lowry
Park Zoo, Tampa, FL
6. Homosassa
Springs Wildlife State Park, FL
7.
Jacksonville Zoo, Florida
8. Milwaukee County Zoological
Gardens, Milwaukee, WI.
Where
to Report
Your Sightings United
States sightings:
Contact
Martha Tacha at the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the central receiving
point for all whooping crane sightings.
Martha_Tacha@fws.gov
(Phone: 308.382.6468, ext 19)
Canada sightings:
Contact
Canadian Wildlife Service Whooping Crane coordinator Brian Johns:
brian.johns@ec.gc.ca
Phone: (306)975-4109
What
to Include in Your Report
- Did you
see the birds yourself? If not, do you have contact information for
those who did?
- Did the
cranes have any visible leg bands?
- What colortaion
details did you see (especially wing and head
colors)?
- What was the date
and time of the sighting?
- Were binoculars
used? How far away were the cranes?
- What behaviors
were the birds doing?
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