OT-CHAT: totally off topic - endangered Whooping Cranes

Exciting news - the <first> wild born baby from parents who were hand reared and taught the migration route by following the ultralight aircraft when <they> were babies has made the trip with its parents from where it was born in Wisconsin to their wintering grounds in Florida! 
<http://www.operationmigration.org/index.html>
and
<http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html>
for the daily updates.
The only thing this has to do with irises is that someday I hope to name a seedling something to do with the Whooping Cranes reintroduction efforts by Operation Migration et al. WHOOPING CRANE is already taken - will have to come up with something else. Odd name for a purple iris!
WHOOPING CRANE (Payne, R. 1965)., Sdlg. 1009 JI, 54" (137 cm), E 3-petal. Light phlox purple (Ridgway). Snow Glitter X Shinso-kagin. Payne 1969 
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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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