Journey North Whooping Cranes for Kids


Read About Whooping Cranes
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Observe Cranes (Photos and Video Clips)
Photo Eva Szyszkosky	Photo AltaLink	Photo Eva Szyszkosky	Photo Eva Szyszkosky
How Do Cranes Use Their Red Crowns?	How does this help migrating cranes?	What is happening?	What makes crane eyelids unlike yours?
Photo Alan Murphy		Photo Eva Szyszkosky	Photo Eva Szyszkosky
How Do Cranes Eat Crabs?	Who's in Charge?	How Do Cranes Drink Water?	What is Crane #803 Doing?
Photo Vickie Henderson	Photo Jeannette Parker	Photo Urette Hood	Photo Cindy Loken
How is this crane preparing for migration?	Is this a whooping crane?	What's in the pocket?	Why are the wing-tip feathers different?
	Photo Eva Szyszkosky	Photo Eva Szyszkosky	Photo Heather Ray
Coyote! How does a whooping crane handle it?	Why Give Treats?	Juveniles or Adults?	How Big is a Whooping Crane?

Keeping Crane Chicks Healthy	Learning Life's Lessons	Meet Robo-Crane	Pairs Dance: Why?

Whooping Cranes Hatching	Teaching Chicks to Eat	Ground School Training	Threat Posturing and Calling in Triumph

Migration Departure!	#814 Flies With Chris	Night Roost Check on Migration	Exercise on No-fly Migration Days

Wild Goose Chase and Dancing Cranes	Ultralight + 15 Chicks	How do we track the cranes?	Four Flying Crane Chicks

Running By Ultralight Plane	Whoopers and Work at Patuxent WRC	Little Chick in Grass at Patuxent	Dance Like the Cranes!

Tired Crane in Flight	15 White Whoopers at Pond	The Story Behind the Ultralight-led Cranes	Flying in the Sweet Spot

Low Beginning Flights	Seen from the Tower at Necedah	Slow-motion	Crane-kids, Ultralight Vocalizer

Splish, Splash! A Crane in the Bath