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

• Main Authors: Stehn, Thomas V., Haralson-Strobel, Carey L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2016
• Subjects: Aransas/Wood Buffalo; Grus americana; mortality; whooping crane; Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ornithology; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Canada; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nacwgproc/372; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nacwgproc/article/1376/viewcontent/6_Stehn_and_Haralson_Strobel_2014_Mortality_of_fledged_whooping_cranes.pdf

From winter 1950 through spring 2011, 6,364 whooping cranes (Grus americana) overwintered at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, or rarely, elsewhere. Documented winter losses amounted to 105 birds dead or disappeared. About 20% of total losses occurred in the wintering area, where birds spend 5 to 6...