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> FW: ICF Whooper Reintroduction Updates - Travel
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> | From: ICF - Savingcranes.org [mailto:info at savingcranes.org]
> | Sent: Sun 2/4/2007 5:23 PM
> | To: Barry Hartup
> | Subject: ICF Whooper Reintroduction Updates - Travel Journal Entry
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> | Travels Journals
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> | Whooper Reintroduction Updates
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> | Current Trip: Winter 2007: Monitoring the Whooping Cranes
> | Entry February 4
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> | A lone survivor! February 4, 2007
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> | After the storms cleared, a ray of light emerges. We are delighted to
announce that one of the juvenile Whooping Cranes, presumed dead in the
storms that hit central Florida, has been recovered! Marianne Wellington,
ICF Aviculturist, picked up the radio signal of #15-06 yesterday near the
Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge pensite. They lost the signal that
afternoon, but ICF Tracking Interns, Tally Love and Stacey Kerley, resumed
tracking the bird this afternoon and picked up his radio signal in Citr| us
County, Florida, several miles from the pensite.
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> | During an aerial search, the juvenile crane was observed in an isolated
area with two sandhill cranes. Number 15-06 is in the same area with three
whooping cranes from the Class of 2005. They could not get a clear visual
on the bird from the ground, but from the air, he appeared healthy and
uninjured. He will be monitored closely, and initial plans are to treat him
like one of the released birds.
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> | Seventeen cranes at the pensite died in the storms, but the remains of
#15-06 were never recovered. The crane was presumed buried in the mud, but
when Marianne picked up his radio signal from outside the pen yesterday,
hopes ran high.
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> | During the last leg of the ultralight-led migration this fall, crane
#15-06 dropped out and was missing for two days before being recovered and
reunited with his flockmates. We're unsure how #15-06 got out of the pen.
One theory is that the wind or high water nudged the gate open just enough
and #15-06 got out. We may never know, but one thing is clear--this is one
resilient crane! As Marianne said, "He's the Houdini of birds."
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> | Update by Joan Garland, ICF Acting Director of Education.
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