Whooping Crane Collisions with Power Lines: an Issue Paper

• Main Authors: Stehn, Thomas V., Wassenich, Tom
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2008
• Subjects: Aransas; collisions; Grus americana; power lines; whooping crane; Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ornithology; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Northwest Territories; Canada; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nacwgproc/203; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nacwgproc/article/1203/viewcontent/Stehn.pdf

Collision with power lines is the greatest source of mortality for fledged whooping cranes (Grus americana) in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo population (AWBP) that migrate between the Northwest Territories, Canada to the Texas coast. This paper compiles 45 documented whooping crane mortalities from power...