[va-bird] FW: Look out for Sandhill Cranes!

  • From: Susan Heath <sheath@xxxxxxx>
  • To: VA Birds <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:45:08 -0500

I plucked this off of the Maryland listserv.... The Patuxent Research Center is not very far from Virginia as the crane flies so I thought it important to pass on.

Sue

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From: Ellen Paul <ellen.paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Look out for Sandhill Cranes
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:29:51 +0000


Last week's snowstorm caused the crane pens and nets at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center to collapse.

One-hundred-five of 110 flight-netted pens were damaged, and nine whooping cranes and nine sandhill cranes had escaped. All of the whoopers were recaptured
by Monday afternoon, but the sandhills remain loose.

The number for the crane facility is 301-497-5755
--
Ellen Paul Executive Director
The Ornithological Council


--
Susan A. Heath
George Mason University
Environmental Science Department
Fairfax, VA

Secretary, Virginia Avian Records Committee
Keeper, Virginia Comp List at www.virginiabirding.org

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