Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Whooping Cranes Make it to Florida

While usually a firm believer in letting Nature work things out, sometimes because of the depradations of the human race we need to give certain species a helping hand.

So we find the situation with whooping cranes, some of the most majestic creatures upon the face of the earth--whether created by God, Goddess, or evolution.  In general, bag on birding like my Facebook buddy Sean Paul Kelly enjoys but nevertheless these regal birds, avian owners of the sky, make my soul sing; I don't know why.

Plus, find it a real hoot that human intervention--having these birds learn to migrate by following an ultra light plane--works for good rather than ill.

Yay humans!







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[Whooping cranes were on the verge of extinction in the 1940s. Today, there are only about 600 birds in existence, about 445 of those in the wild. Aside from the WCEP birds, the only other migratory population of whooping cranes nests at Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta, Canada and winters at Aransas NWR on the Texas Gulf Coast. A non-migratory flock of approximately 20 birds lives year-round in the central Florida Kissimmee region, and an additional 33 non-migratory cranes live in southern Louisiana.]
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