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Top nature and birding company Naturalist Journeys announces a fall nature adventure tour to Wisconsin, exploring special places touched by Leopold’s land ethic. Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) May 29, 2013 Naturalist Journeys, a top nature and birding tour company, is proud to announce their upcoming October 13 - 19, 2013, tour to Wisconsin and the sites that helped shape Leopold’s conservation principles. The eco-tour company’s owner Peg Abbott says, “If you are interested in...
New Acres for America projects protect wildlife habitat, recreation opportunities across the U.S. BENTONVILLE, Ark., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Walmart's Acres for America program, a conservation partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), is protecting priority lands across the country to provide wildlife habitats and recreational opportunities for local residents. Newly-announced projects in Arkansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, Wisconsin, New Hampshire,...
Top nature and birding tour company, Naturalist Journeys, announces exciting bird-watching tour to view spectacular Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska with expert guides. Lincoln, Nebraska (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 Naturalist Journeys, a top Nature Tour Company, is proud to announce their upcoming Nebraska Platte River Guided Birding Tour of the famous Sandhill Cranes. Expert birding tour guides Ed and Sil Pembleton have been traveling to see the annual Sandhill Crane migration on the Platte...
NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Audubon President David Yarnold Calls Obama Decision on Keystone Pipeline "A Victory for Common Sense." Full Statement: "This was a gutsy call by the President. But it was also a victory for common sense. You don't pipe potentially lethal goo through one of America's largest wetland ecosystems. "An environmental disaster of epic proportions has been avoided by the rejection of the Keystone pipeline, but we need to stand...
Some nest and winter here, but are they part of our wildlife community? By Joe Kosack, Wildlife Conservation Education Specialist, Pennsylvania Game Commission PYMATUNING, Pa., Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What in Sam Hill are sandhill cranes doing in Pennsylvania? They don't have much history here; their status was more of a just-passing-through or accidental visitor than anything else. Heck, they don't even have relatives in Pennsylvania. But their growing presence here...
A Sandhill crane was reunited with its mate in Wisconsin this week after more than six months recovering from an arrow wound. When the bird was released Wednesday near Wisconsin Rapids, where it was discovered in September, it flew into the air, heard a call and then reversed course to a nearby field, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. There, it found its mate and the juvenile male it hatched last year. The other cranes migrated to Florida and back during the winter. The crane, an...
There's been another rare whooping crane sighting in North Dakota. State Game and Fish Department biologist Mike Szymanski says two of the birds were spotted recently in Benson County, feeding in a field with sandhill cranes. A whooping crane also has been sighted in Emmons County this fall. Szymanski says whoopers are in the midst of their fall migration, and sightings will increase as they make their way through North Dakota during the next several weeks. The birds stand about 5 feet...
The state Game and Fish Department says a whooping crane was sighted in Emmons County recently, and it's reminding hunters to watch for the endangered birds. Department biologist Mike Szymanski says one of the whoopers was seen in a field with sandhill cranes. He says the rare birds are making their way through North Dakota on their fall migration route. Whoopers stand about 5 feet tall with a wingspan of about 7 feet from tip to tip. Szymanski says people who spot then should not disturb...
By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Aug. 3--For the first time since the early 1900s, a pair of sandhill cranes has been documented as successfully breeding in northeastern North Dakota. The discovery first made news among birding enthusiasts in mid-July, when an observer reported seeing the cranes with a juvenile near Edinburg, N.D. Grand Forks birding expert Dave Lambeth photographed the parents and young crane Wednesday using a digital camera mounted on a spotting scope, a...
By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Jul. 8--PASCAGOULA -- A manager with the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge, which takes up hundreds of acres in Jackson County, paid the county a compliment Monday when he paid the refuge's version of taxes. Lloyd Culp, refuge complex manager, told the Board of Supervisors, "You've got something very special developing here in Jackson County. You have some of the rarest habitat on the entire planet." Culp was talking about...
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The Common Crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian Crane, is a species of bird found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia. It has a global population of 210,000 to 250,000 individuals. The largest number of these birds nest in Russia and Scandinavia. In Great Britain the Common Crane became extinct in the 17th century, but a tiny population now breeds again in the Norfolk Broads and is slowly increasing. It is migratory and winters in areas of Africa, southern Europe, and southern...
The Whooping Crane (Grus americana) is a very large crane and the tallest North American bird. Adult birds are white with a red crown and a long dark pointed bill. They have long dark legs which trail behind in flight and a long neck that is kept straight in flight. Black wing tips can be seen in flight. Immature birds are pale brown. Their breeding habitat is muskeg; the only known nesting location is Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada and its surrounding area. They nest on the...
