[wisb] Re: Whooping Cranes (and leg tags) - Columbia County
- From: "Mike Duchek" <mikeduchek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cajunbirder@xxxxxxxxx>, <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:42:21 -0500
Someone posted on the Madison Audubon Society message board recently having
seen some in Jefferson County too. Anyway, they had a record 12 nests
(good) and then a record 12 out of 12 nests abandoned (not so good). They
seem to think it's due to flies, but apparently they don't know for sure.
However if I think they were able to rescue eggs from some of these nests.
Per the blog, some of them left the refuge and some have not been recorded
recently, but the USFWS has a form here for sightings:
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Whoopingcrane/sightings/sightingform.cfm
For updates, visit OM's excellent blog:
http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
See the cute video link at the end of the latest post as well as photos of
some chicks.
-Mike Duchek, Madison, Dane Co.
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