Re: OT-CHAT: endangered whooping cranes

<Have the Sandhills gotten down there already, they left here the end of
August, as did the whoopers that  nest up here.   Darm zone 1 maybe 1.5
Hay River NWT.>

I know more about the Whooping Cranes than the sandhills, but do know
that it's early for the sandhills to be this far south.  Between
November and late February, there have been between 10 and 20,000
sandhill cranes estimated to be at Hiwassee Refuge (an hour south of me)
during peak migration to and from Florida wintering grounds.  I'm not
sure how many of these nest in Canada, but know that some don't go that
far north.  Last I heard, the Wisconsin summer residents were still
there.

The big staging area (where the Sandhills stop to feed and rest) between
Tennessee and Wisconsin is Jasper Pulaski Wildlife Refuge in Indiana.

Any more about cranes, we probably need to go off list.  But I will post
another note when they get to my house <g>.  Probably mid-November,
based on how long it has taken the last two groups of babies.  Two
months to get to Florida as juveniles, less than a week to fly back home
the following spring.

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