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Nests & Eggs!



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ICF’s captive Whooping Cranes are laying eggs and the wild Whooping Cranes are nesting in Wisconsin. Breeding season is here!

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Wild Whooping Crane Chick Hatches in Central Wisconsin



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The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) is celebrating another success in its efforts to reintroduce a wild migratory Whooping Crane population in eastern North America. A Whooping Crane chick hatched yesterday in Marathon County, Wis.

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ICF Launches National Whooping Crane Environmental Ed Program



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ICF recently launched an initiative to develop a National Whooping Crane Environmental Education program. This program, aimed at 4th – 8th grade students, teachers, families, and the general public, will involve interactive multi-media tools to engage people in Whooping Crane conservation. We started this work in Texas through a partnership with Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.

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You’re Invited to An Evening with the Cranes 2013



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Join the International Crane Foundation (ICF) for our fourth annual An Evening with the Cranes and experience great food from local restaurants, craft beer, wine and conversation. You’ll also meet ICF Co-founder Dr. George Archibald, ICF staff and, of course, the cranes of the world at our beautiful headquarters in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

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Partnership Study on Nesting Success of Eastern Migratory Whooping Cranes



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Black flies may be responsible for a high number of Whooping Cranes abandoning their nests in the core reintroduction area in central Wisconsin. To test this hypothesis, the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), the coalition of public and private groups that is reintroducing Whooping Cranes to eastern North America, has been conducting a multi-year study to examine the causes of nest abandonment.

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