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Fw: Update of male Whooping Crane (not found)
- To: "carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Fw: Update of male Whooping Crane (not found)
- From: "Judy Murray" <jmurray@email.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:07:47 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
Another message on the Whooping Cranes received from the TN bird list.
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>
>From: Jeb Barzen
>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:25:54 +0000
>Organization: International Crane Foundation
>
>Hi All:
>
>The air crew returned Sunday evening and the
>ground crew returned yesterday (Tuesday) morning.
>All is well with them, at least after some
>well-deserved rest.
>
>En route from Greenville, SC through Sandusky, OH
>to Wisconsin, the air crew checked for signals
>from the male. They found none. Pelee Point was
>covered thoroughly but there might still be some
>areas between Sandusky, Ohio and Cleveland that
>could use some additional searching in case the
>male was killed near the likely night roost for
>Nov. 21.
>
>The Florida team of biologists are continuing
>their vigilance for the bird in case he arrives
>Florida. In addition, thanks to press from
>Greeneville, TN and from the Tennessee Ornithological
>Society, there are quite a few eyes (and some ears)
>on the lookout for whoopers there. I have already
>had one call from Tennessee reporting a whooper in
>someone's back yard. Unfortunately, it turned out
>to be a Great Blue Heron as the bird would often
>perch in a tree while harassing fish in the person's
>fish pond. Such reports are nice in that they
>suggest that people are watching and you never
>know when a whooper will really be seen. Just
>ask Howard Earnest, the neighbor of the Carter
>family who saw the female whooper in the
>Carter's farm pond the morning after she arrived.
>
>
>If any word of the male comes to me I will write
>an addendum to all of you. In the meantime, thanks
>again for all of your efforts in the search.
>
>Along a similar front, the ground crew came home
>via Hiwassee, TN and Jasper-Pulaski, IN. At
>Hiwassee they found a male sandhill crane and
>his chick plus a female from another pair. All
>three of these birds had radio transmitters and
>were from a study near Briggsville, WI. At
>Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area, the ground crew
>found another 4 adults and 1 chick from the
>Briggsville study plus 2 chicks (#2 and #4) from
>a study of sandhill cranes in Necedah, WI.
>Wisconsin cranes are currently spread out
>throughout the eastern U.S. The air crew also
>looked for radio signals from whoopers or
>sandhills from Gainesville, FL to the north end
>of Okeefenokee, GA but heard nothing.
>
>Finally, in the attached map, [map not included
>in this message because it is a very large
>attached file] please note the Kissimmee location
>of the female whooper for December 1.
>
>It is here that she met up with other whoopers
>for the first time and it is here that she was
>released as a chick in 1995. Most fascinating
>is how straight a line you can draw from Sandusky,
>MI to Kissimmee, FL and cover most of the females
>flight path (outside of the Appalachian Mountains).
>Once in south eastern GA, she turned and headed
>towards Inverness. After a one night stay, she
>then headed on to Kissimmee on Dec. 1. We know
>this thanks to Marty Folk's tracking.
>
>Since then, the female has not moved significantly.
>
>Jeb Barzen
>Director of Field Ecology
>International Crane Foundation
>Baraboo, Wisconsin
>
Judy Murray,
Chapel Hill, NC