10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
In late January of 2013 I spent some time with a pair of Whooping Cranes just off Canoe Creek Road in Osceola County, Florida. I have compiled the family trees of both birds below: Ancestry Chart of 1781, born in the wild in Central Florida. Today only 19 members of this dwindling flock remain.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?
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