MORTALITY IN FLEDGED WHOOPING CRANES OF THE ARANSAS/WOOD BUFFALO POPULATION

• Main Authors: Lewis, James C., Kuyt, Ernie, Schwindt, Kenneth E., Stehn, Thomas V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1992
• Subjects: Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ornithology; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nacwgproc/313; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nacwgproc/article/1313/viewcontent/lEWIS___mORTALITY.pdf

A total of 1,893 whooping cranes (Grus americana) overwintered at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge from 1950 through spring 1987. Winter losses (dead and disappeared) amounted to only 1.3% of the population, but 3.7% of the juveniles. About 19% of the annual losses occurred in the wintering area whe...