Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP):
Partners Working to Bring Back the Cranes

WCEP: Who Does What?
Project Part	Which Partner Does It?	Who's in Charge?
Breeding, Incubation, Hatching, Rearing, Health Care before the chicks are transported from Maryland to Wisconsin for "Flight School."	Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC) in Maryland
Rearing, Imprinting, Early Conditioning to the ultralight body during "Ground School" in Maryland before the chicks are transported to Wisconsin	Operation Migration (OM) and PWRC
Summer "'Flight School" at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin	OM and PWRC
Migration from Wisconsin to Florida	OM and PWRC
Winter Monitoring at chicks' pen site at Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge ("Chass") in Florida	International Crane Foundation (ICF) and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)
Tracking of the older Whooping Cranes in the new Eastern Flock	ICF and USFWS
Direct Autumn Release (DAR) Program	ICF and USFWS

Information Courtesy of Operation Migration

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