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    The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, named for its “whooping” calls. Along with the sandhill crane...
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    Arizona. Sandhill cranes have been tried as foster parents for whooping cranes in reintroduction schemes. This failed when the whooping cranes imprinted on...
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    cranes have been affected by human activities and are at the least classified as threatened, if not critically endangered. The plight of the whooping...
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    is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which...
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    species (the red-crowned and whooping cranes) are perhaps the most carnivorous species. When feeding on plants, red-crowned cranes exhibit a preference for...
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    species such as Canada geese, trumpeter swans, sandhill cranes, and endangered whooping cranes. Operation Migration Canada was founded in 1994 as a Canadian...
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    Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are...
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    sister species like the grey crowned crane as well as the sandhill crane and the whooping crane. The black crowned crane has two subspecies: Balearica pavonina...
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  • include the Black-crowned night heron, ducks, and Whooping cranes among others. The Whooping crane, once abundant in Louisiana, was extirpated by the...
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  • Whooping Crane Summer Range is a 16,895-km2 wetland complex in the boreal forests of northern Alberta and southwestern Northwest Territories in Canada...
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    Upset that water diversion would threaten the critically endangered whooping crane, on October 2, 1978, the Nebraska Attorney General’s office obtained...
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    The demoiselle crane (Grus virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurosiberia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and Northeast China. There...
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  • Look up whooping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whooping may refer to: Whooping Creek, a stream in Georgia, United States Whooping, a style of preaching...
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    African crowned crane, African crane, Eastern crowned crane, Kavirondo crane, South African crane, and crested crane, is a bird in the crane family, Gruidae...
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    of crane, the blue crane has the most restricted distribution of all. Even species with lower population numbers now (such as Siberian or whooping cranes)...
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    of all ages. Slightly larger Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) can be taken as well. While adult whooping cranes (Grus americana) are too large and formidable...
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    Ko. Tokashiki Iken has identified him as Xie Zhongxiang, founder of Whooping Crane Kung Fu. Zhongxiang taught several Okinawan students who went on to...
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    spoonbills of North and South America, the Eurasian oystercatcher, whooping crane and common crane, the American flamingo of Florida and the Caribbean Sea, and...
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    common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly...
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  • STEM facilities, as well as a plan to change the campus mascot to a whooping crane instead of an offensive Native American character during their bicentennial...
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    Wood Buffalo National Park, is the Whooping Crane Summer Range, a nesting site of a remnant flock of whooping cranes, discovered in 1954. The Slave River...
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    The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan. It is...
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    in the United States. Wildlife found in the area includes the rare whooping crane, American alligators, nine-banded armadillos, West Indian manatees,...
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    The white-naped crane (Antigone vipio) is a bird of the crane family. It is a large bird, 112–125 cm (44–49 in) long, about 130 cm (4.3 ft) tall, and...
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    last couple years to a total of 233. Whooping Crane Black-footed ferret The black-footed ferret and whooping crane are on the endangered species list....
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    passenger pigeon, which numbered in the billions, also caused concern. The whooping crane also received widespread attention as unregulated hunting and habitat...
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    demoiselle crane and blue crane in the genus Anthropoides, and the wattled crane in the monospecific genus Bugeranus, leaving only the red-crowned, whooping, common...
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  • Archibald spent three years with a highly endangered whooping crane named Tex, acting as a male crane – walking, calling, dancing – to shift her into reproductive...
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  • season ultralight aircraft leading whooping cranes on their fall migration in Operation Migration will end. Whooping crane experts found that the ultralight...
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    The sarus crane (Antigone antigone) is a large nonmigratory crane found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia. The tallest...
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