Teaching the Whooping Cranes View Whooping Crane Feeding Tactics by Cameron The Freep says that the US Fish and Wildlife Service says whooping crane 318 has decided to stay in a Michigan marsh rather than migrating to Wisconsin. Most of the 65 endangered birds that left Florida this spring reached their destination -- the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin. The cranes were raised by Operation Migration, a Canadian group working to save the species. They are raised by people in crane costumes and follow ultra-light planes to learn the migration route. Read Crane isn't lost; it likes Michigan in the Detroit Free Press Operation Migration web site Grus americana (whooping crane) from UM Animal Diversity web Another great photo of Whooping Cranes Posted/updated Jun 20, 2006 by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan) click to Send This Story to a Friend! Main Michigan News Page Go Back One Page

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