Biological Case Against Downlisting the Whooping Crane and for Improving Implementation under the Endangered Species Act

• Main Authors: Caven, Andrew, Thompson, Hillary, Baasch, David, Hartup, Barry, Hegg, Amanda, Schmidt, Stephanie, Louque, Irvin, Allen, Craig, Crouch, Carter, Davis, Craig, Jorgensen, Joel, Austin, Jane, Ostrom, Bethany, Beilfuss, Richard, Archibald, George, Lacy, Anne E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Authorea, Inc. 2023
• Subjects: Canada; Wood Buffalo; Wood Buffalo National Park
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.168252698.80347818/v1

The Whooping Crane (Grus americana; WHCR) is a large, long-lived bird endemic to North America. The remnant population migrates between Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, USA, and Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada (AWBP), and has recovered from a nadir of 15-16 birds in 1941 to ~540 birds in 2022. T...