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Whooping Crane Egg Scorecard 2017 | International Crane Foundation
This site is updated with the status of whooping cranes (wild and at the center) this breeding season.
This site is updated with the status of whooping cranes (wild and at the center) this breeding season.
As per usual: non-informed policies and an assault on any relevant conservation work in the US by his administration.
Tsuru, a Red-Crowned Crane that was part of the first clutch of cranes to ever hatch at ICF, has died. 
Tsuru was 42 years old.
Tsuru was 42 years old.Another respectable age testament to best animal management and husbandry care at ICF.Tsuru, a Red-Crowned Crane that was part of the first clutch of cranes to ever hatch at ICF, has died.
According to The Bugle (the ICF membership magazine), three breeding pairs of Whooping Cranes have arrived at ICF from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland.
10 Whooping Cranes and a Hooded Crane have hatched.
Some exceptional breeding results!
How many breeding pairs of whooping crane does ICF hold now?
BTW (also): Is Patuxent scaling down in terms of whooping crane conservation breeding (with the recent transfer of 3 pairs to ICF)?
I don't know how many breeding pairs ICF has, but I know, in all, ICF has 38 cranes (excluding the recently hatched birds).
Patuxent is transferring their cranes elsewhere because the Whooping Crane program closed. Other birds from Patuxent went to White Oak Conservation Center, Dallas Zoo, San Antonio Zoo, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center, and Calgary Zoo.
jusko88
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This more or less underlines that the closure of the Patuxent wildlife base for whooping cranes puts a major strain on facilities elsewhere, in particular ICF which apart from an US and other N.American range states' crane conservation work are responsible for much international crane in situ support.
The Patuxent - whooping crane program may have been wound down - not sure why, but I get the distinct feeling that the current administration's desinterest in environment and conservation at large is plays a major part in this - the status of this iconic N. American crane species is yet still far from being secure and we cannot consider the current numbers and various flocks anything like a sustainable safe and self-perpetuating population. It really makes me kinda sad ...
It seems they managed getting the funding in place!!!!
Is that construction by the Whooping Crane exhibit?
I'm surprised. I hope they don't harm the prairie restoration.
Information on the $10 million renovation from the foundation's website:
Stay Involved in 2019 | International Crane Foundation
A detailed map of the International Crane Foundation in terms of how it will look in 2020 with the grand reopening:
https://www.savingcranes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/illustrative_site_plan_2500.jpg
Stay Involved in 2019 | International Crane Foundation
A detailed map of the International Crane Foundation in terms of how it will look in 2020 with the grand reopening:
https://www.savingcranes.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/illustrative_site_plan_2500.jpg
ICF currently has an incredible Whooping Crane exhibit, and great exhibits for both crowned cranes, Blue Cranes, and Wattled Cranes as well. But the other exhibits really aren't anything special. However, after this renovation, ICF will be able to claim not only that they keep very crane species, but that they keep every crane species in the best exhibits of their kind.
How many Black-Necked Cranes do they have?
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