For complete details of the flight of the 18 young Whooping Cranes to
Florida with their ultralight leaders check out
www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
Paul Woodward
Fairfax City, VA
grackling@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: <jjfoxfox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 6:33 PM
Subject: [va-bird] A Christmas present for birders everywhere
VA birders
From an article on eastern Whooping Cranes and Operation Migration:
"On December 9 a pair of cranes that had been taught the route by Operation Migration's pilots in 2002 reached Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge in Florida.
With the birds was a chick they had hatched in June-the first eastern wild-hatched whooping crane to make this migration in more than a century. "
Cool beans, eh?! See
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061219-birds.html
Good birding and happy holidays,
John Fox
Arlington
You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send email to va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To unsubscribe, send email to
va-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
