Winter & Spring

Getting Started

• Key Whooping Crane Activities: Winter & Spring

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 and the Western Flock
• The Challenges of Survival: Learning from Life Histories

Winter & Spring Lessons

• Tracking Two Flocks: Eastern Flock and Western Flock
• Overview: Whooping Crane Reintroduction and Migration
• Meet the Eastern Flock: Hatch Years 2001-2007
• Comparing Migrations 2001-2007
• Eastern Cranes on the Florida Wintering Grounds
• Western Cranes on the Texas Wintering Grounds
• Radio Telemetry: Tracking the Cranes
• Which Cranes Get PTTs?
• Signals from the Sky: About Those PTTs
• How Birds Fly: A Journey North In-Depth Lesson
• Up Up and Away: Thermals and Updrafts
• Which Are the Whoopers? Identifying from an Airplane
• Were They Whoopers? You Be the Judge!
• Crane ID: Will You Know a Whooper?
• A Day in the Life of a Migrating Wild Whooper: How High? How Fast? How Far?
• Dance Like the Cranes
• Fly Away Home — and Beyond (Intro to Operation Migration)
• Mates for Life?
• Dominant or Submissive? Leader or Follower?
• Migration Dangers
• Whooping Crane Chicks: Preparing for an Amazing Journey!
• Population Dynamics: Challenges of Rebuilding an Endangered Species
• The challenges of Whooping Crane Survival: Learning from Life Histories
• How Many Cranes in the Eastern Flock?
• A Tale of Two Cranes: How Do Wild and Captive-raised Whoopers Compare?
• Discovery of the Canadian Nesting Grounds
• Canadian Nesting Grounds Map/Activities
• Where Can You See Whoopers?
• Feeling Blue and Crabby: Whooping Crane Winter Diet
• The Crab Connection: Crabs in Trouble Equals Cranes in Trouble
• How Do Experts Recapture a Wild Whooping Crane?
• A New Life for Two Whooping Crane Chicks (Slide Show)
• Eggs From Many Places: Building Genetic Diversity
• Glossary