At February's Port Aransas Whooping Crane Festival, visitors will get a chance to see majestic white cranes in their winter home in Texas bays and marshes.
Celebrate the beauty of whooping cranes at the Port Aransas Whooping Crane Festival from February 23-26.Whooping cranes have flown 2,600 miles from ancestral breeding grounds in northwest Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park to get to Port Aransas and other central coast locations.
The cranes, the largest North American birds, fly gracefully on an 8-foot wingspan. They stand 5 feet tall on improbably skinny legs that support a weight of 14 to 16 pounds. Their white plumage is offset by a red skin patch that courses from their the cheeks, sides of the bill and atop the head. When they spread their wings in flight, their black wingtips.MORE FROM GARY CLARK:The U.S.
Crane populations plummeted during the last half of the 18th century and through the early 20th century due to overhunting and the conversion of the Great Plains to agriculture. A small group of cranes remained on secluded breeding grounds in northwest Canada and migrated to winter homes in coastal Texas.
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