Winter & Spring

Getting Started

• Key Whooping Crane Activities: Fall

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

Fall Lessons

The Whooping Cranes and Training:

• Meet the New Eastern Flock: Hatch Year 2007
• Hatch Year 2007 Key Timeline Events
• Meet the Eastern Flock: Hatch Years 2001-2007
• 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
• 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?
• Bode and Ohno: A New Life for Two Whooping Crane Chicks
• The Adventures of DAR #46-07

The Operation Migration Team and the Migration:

• Meet The WCEP Migration Team 2007
• In the Cockpit: Come In, Alpha-Kilo-Quebec
• Who's Flying These Ultralights? (Photo Quiz)
• Protocol for Operation Migration
• Why Can't the Cranes Climb as Fast as the Planes?
• 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?
• Brrr! It's Cold Up There!
• Why Such Short Daily Flights?
• Setting Up the Travel Pen
• Tracking and Retrieving: Help from Two-way Radios and Marsh Music
• Comparing Ultralight-Led Migrations 2001-2007
• See the Whoopers and Ultralights
• Halpata: Temporary Layover Site

Special Stories: (also see JN Kids)

• Nadia Helps the Cranes
• Taylor Flies With the Cranes

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

Standards Science Math JN for Kids

Featured Highlights

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

Help the Whoopers and Ultralights Reach Florida!

Glossary