Tweeting from the Field in Southeast China
On Thanksgiving Day ICF Research Associate James Burnham tweeted from the field in southeast China. He had just observed over two-thirds of the world’s critically endangered Siberian Cranes (in one lake!) on their wintering grounds at Poyang Lake Nature Reserve. James traveled to China in late November to begin a four-month field season studying Siberian Cranes for his Ph.D. research through the UW-Madison School of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.
CeCe Carter Sieffert, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and her husband Mark Sieffert are in Guizhou Province, China this fall as part of a new UW/ICF partnership at Cao Hai, a critical wintering area for over 400 Black-necked cranes in southwestern China. Following is a summary of their experiences at Cao Hai.