Cranes of the World: Whooping Crane ( Grus americana )

Other Vernacular Names: Whooper; Big white crane; Grue de Amerique, Grue blanche Americaine (French); Schreikranich, Trompeterkranich (German); Amerikanishiy krikpivy zhuravl (Russian); Grulla griteria, Grulla blanca (Spanish). Range: Breeds in Wood Buffalo National Park, Northwest Territories. Migr...

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Main Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
Format: Text
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Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1983
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscicranes/31
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/bioscicranes/article/1031/viewcontent/Whooping_Crane.pdf
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Summary:Other Vernacular Names: Whooper; Big white crane; Grue de Amerique, Grue blanche Americaine (French); Schreikranich, Trompeterkranich (German); Amerikanishiy krikpivy zhuravl (Russian); Grulla griteria, Grulla blanca (Spanish). Range: Breeds in Wood Buffalo National Park, Northwest Territories. Migratory, wintering at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, coastal Texas. Formerly much more widespread, breeding south to North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois, and reported from as far west as Utah, east to Cape May New Jersey, and south to coastal Louisiana. Birds hatched from eggs recently transported to Grays Lake, southeastern Idaho, have been reared by greater sandhill cranes and now winter with them in the Rio Grande area of south-central New Mexico.