Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous conservationist, calls it “a spectacle everyone should try to experience once in a lifetime.” Or more. The elegant cranes with their silvery-grey feathers and red crowns made such an impression on me in 2016 that, like Goodall, I felt compelled to ...
We also brought my 92-year-old grandmother to see the sandhill cranes. The sunset was stunning… I rarely spend time outdoors in the evenings, but visiting the preserve at sunset reminded me of the wonder of nature and the importance of trying new things. I’ve been living here for 12 ...
Thursday, February 6, 2014 a pair of Whooping Cranes was found shot near Roanoke in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. According to a nearby landowner the two cranes had been seen recently in close proximity to a large flock of snow geese. Louisiana’s goose season is still open and both s...
Whooping Cranes were shot for both meat and sport. Laws enacted to protect the birds have led to a decline in human caused mortality, but shootings still occur. The most recent known cases involved an adult female being mistaken for a snow goose near Aransas NWR in 1989, an adult female ...
overcast, the light was flat and the cranes were acting skittish. Usually I can approach them on the ground within about 50 yards and photograph them doing their thing with a telephoto lens, but this year I couldn’t seem to get anywhere near them before they would hop or fly away. ...
Because Sandhill cranes nested in the marsh behind my first shop, in Morrisonville, Wisconsin, about 45 minutes south of the International Crane Foundation. We were also near a nesting site at my last shop near Fort Atkinson. Sandhill Cranes were sited for the first time in 30 years in the...