Our Window on Nature

A little over a month ago we wrote about endangered Whooping Cranes, both with information from the 1980’s and an update about their present status. We also included a link to a National Geographic video featuring training flights for the young birds.

Since they were captive-reared, these young Whoopers didn’t know their way from Wisconsin to their wintering grounds in Florida, so they were trained to follow an UltraLite aircraft.

After a 1,234-mile journey taking 76 days, the birds have finally reached their destination at Halpata Tastanaki Preserve in Florida. If you didn’t read the earlier article, here is a link. And another for the must-see video.