Nesting Activity, May 17, 2007
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Whooper
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| Photo by Richard Urbanek, USFWS |
Current Trip:
Spring 2007: Eastern Whooping
Crane Migration
Entry May 17
Nesting Activity, May
17, 2007
Estimated size of the eastern migratory Whooping Crane population is 57
individuals (32 males and 25 females): 53 in Wisconsin, 2 in Michigan,
1 in New York, and 1 migrating/unknown.
Nesting
activity has resumed at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and
surrounding area! Four pairs of Whooping Cranes have been observed nest
building—one of these pairs is incubating. Whooping Crane
pairs
#1-02/#6-03, #11-02/#17-02 (parents of the First Family) and
#13-02/#18-02 were observed nest building earlier this week. Whooping
Crane pair #3-03 and #17-03 renested and apparently began incubating on
May 14. Of these four pairs, three of them had been incubating earlier
this spring when they deserted their nests around April 20. This is the
first nesting attempt of numbers 1-02 and 6-03 this spring.
Earlier
this week Sara Zimorski, ICF Aviculturist and Richard Urbanek, USFWS
retrieved DAR (Direct Autumn Release) crane #27-06 from Michigan and
brought him back to Wisconsin, where he was released on the Necedah
NWR.
Whooping Crane number W1-06, the juvenile from the First
Family remains in south-central Wisconsin. She associates with numbers
10-05 and 11-05 when they are in the area. The birds have been foraging
in local corn stubble fields (photo).
Update by Joan Garland, ICF Acting Director of Education. Report
provided by Richard Urbanek, USFWS and Stacey Kerley, ICF.
This email is generated by the International Crane Foundation located
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