Adult Whooping Crane ( Grus americana ) consumption of juvenile channel catfish ( Ictalurus punctatus ) during the avian spring migration in the Central Platte River Valley, Nebraska, USA

• Main Authors: Caven, Andrew J., Malzahn, Jenna, Koupal, Keith D., Brinley Buckley, Emma M., Wiese, Joshua D., Rasmussen, Rick, Steenson, Carol
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2019
• Subjects: Wood Buffalo; Ruta
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mwnan/vol11/iss1/2; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/mwnan/article/1096/viewcontent/11.2_Caven_Note__450_dpi.pdf

Stopover sites provide important forage resources and protection from predators to the Aransas-Wood Buffalo population of Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) as they migrate 4000 km across the Great Plains each spring and fall. Given the Whooping Crane’s expansive migration corridor, sensitivity to hum...