A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild.
In this image obtained via trail camera and provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, two adult whooping cranes, one female and the other male, stand over a one-day-old chick in Allen Parish, La., on May 6, 2022. Its not just a record for fledglings of the world's rarest crane in Louisiana, but for any flock of the endangered birds reintroduced to the wild, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022.
Only about 800 “whoopers” exist, according to the crane foundation. About 500 are in the only natural flock, which winters in Texas and breeds in Alberta, Canada. About 80 are in the Wisconsin-Florida flock, nearly 140 in captivity and seven in an introduced flock that failed in Florida.Three males and three females raised at the Audubon Nature Institute's species survival center in New Orleans will join them in November, said assistant curator Richard Dunn.
She said the foundation just released two yearlings that were raised at the Calgary zoo but couldn’t be sent to Wisconsin last year because of COVID-19 precautions. Seven bred in captivity are to be released later this year.. The “experimental” flocks are classified as threatened because that loosens regulations, making reintroductions more feasible.“We can’t point out exactly why this was our best year" for fledglings, Zimorski said in the news release.
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