Winter & Spring

Getting Started

• Key Whooping Crane Activities: Fall
• How Does a Whooping Crane Sound?
• How Big is a Whooping Crane?

Tracking Whooping Crane Migration

• Student Portfolios as Visual Organizers for Journey North
• Purchase a Tracking Map or Make Your Own

Conservation: Bringing Back an Engangered Species

• The Goal: A New Flock of 125 Cranes by 2020
• The Progress to Date: Population Graph of the Eastern Flock
• The Challenges of Survival: Learning from Life Histories
• About Operation Migration: Fly Away Home — and Beyond

See the chicks LIVE on the NEW Operation Migration CraneCam! >> TEACHERS: You may wish to block your computer's pop-up ads before clicking to Crane Cam.

Fall Lessons

The Whooping Cranes and Training:

• Meet the New Eastern Flock: Hatch Year 2009
• Hatch Year 2009 Key Timeline Events
• Meet All the Cranes of the New Eastern Flock
• Meet the New Eastern Flock: Getting-to-Know-You Activities
• Whooping Crane Kids: Learning Life's Lessons (JN for Kids)
• Ground School Training (JN for Kids)
• Keeping Crane Chicks Healthy (JN for Kids)
• Who's in Charge? (JN for Kids)
• Meet Robo-Crane!
• Swamp Monster Helps With Training
• An Inside Story: Inside the Egg
• Where's My Mommy? Imprinting
• Me First: Whooping Crane Pecking Order
• Pecking Order Simulation Game
• The Hurdle of Health Checks
• Report Cards for Cranes in Training
• What is Roosting?
• Splish, Splash! A Crane in the Bath
• How Many Cranes in the New Eastern Flock? (Summary of Statistics)
• Can Chicks Migrate Without Following Ultralight Airplanes?
• How Birds Fly
• Safety: What Predators Go For Cranes?
• Leg Bands: Codes and Colors

The Operation Migration Team and the Migration:

• See the Migration Take Off! (video clip, viewing guide)
• Meet The WCEP Migration Team 2009
• In the Cockpit: Come In, Alpha-Kilo-Quebec
• Who's Flying These Ultralights? (Photo Quiz)
• How to Identify the Ultralight (Photo Display)
• An Ultralight Pilot's Survival Kit
• Why Can't the Cranes Climb as Fast as the Ultralights?
• How Can the Pilots Tell if the Birds are Tired?
• Why is Cool Air Best for Migration?
• Flight Days: Everyone Has a Job
• What Makes a Good Stopover Site?
• Flight Formation: the V's Have It
• GPS: Where on Earth?
• Migration Can Be Fun, BUT. . . by Joe Duff
• Why Not Truck the Birds on No-fly Days?
• How Does the Trike Help the Cranes in Flight?
• Ultralight Pilot's Checklist: Weather or Not?
• GPS: A Snapshot in Time
• Where on Earth? A Look at GPS
• Brrr! It's Cold Up There!
• Frosty Wings: A Problem (slide show)
• Why Such Short Daily Flights?
• Setting Up the Travel Pen
• Radio Telemetry: Tracking the Cranes
• Tracking and Retrieving: Help from Two-way Radios and Marsh Music
• Comparing Ultralight-Led Migrations 2001-2008
• See the Whoopers and Ultralights
• Who Goes Where? Dividing the Flock for Winter Homes
• Halpata: Temporary Layover Site
• St Marks NWR: A Second Winter Home (slide show)
• Protocol for Operation Migration
• WCEP Duties: Who Does What?

Special Stories: (also see JN Kids)

• Taylor Flies With the Cranes
• Operation Migration Visits Second Grade

More! Conservation, Artistic Expression, General Crane Biology, Reintroduction/Crane History >>

Standards Science Math JN for Kids

Featured Highlights

Available Nov. 1, 2009 from Operation Migration!

The Challenges of Whooping Crane Survival Learning from Life Histories

Classrooms in Action!

How Many Cranes? Eastern Flock Goal: 25 breeding pairs from 125 Cranes by 2020

What's the story behind this human-assisted migration? You might be surprised! >>

Help the Whoopers and Ultralights Reach Florida!

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