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Whooping Crane #28-05 ("Poe")
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# Title Whooping Crane #28-05 ("Poe") Description A solitary female Whooping Crane (Grus americana) feeds in farmland in southern Indiana with a large flock of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis). Based on leg band color codes, this individual probably is Whooping Crane #28-05 (known as "Poe"), hatched in 2005 by the International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin and directly released into Necedah National Wildlife Refuge. Whooping Cranes are a federally-protected endangered species, with only about 400 individuals remaining in the wild (the western migratory population). Conservation groups have been working since 2001 to reestablish an eastern migratory population; Poe belongs to this population, which numbered about 100 individuals in 2011. A week after this sighting, a different Whooping Crane was found dead nearby in the Muscatatuck river basin, criminally shot and killed. The perpetrator remained at large in January 2012. Location and Date Ewing Bottoms Brownstown, Indiana, USA 12/23/11 (Note: pre-2000 dates are approximate) Credit Mark Swanson/Swanson Media Camera/Source Nikon D300 DSLR Lens AF VR-Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6D ED Model/property releases available? Not applicable/Not applicable Keywords Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis), Family Gruidae (Cranes), Order Gruiformes (Cranes/Limpkin/Rails), Class Aves (Birds), Kingdom Animalia (Animals), Whooping Crane (Grus americana) |
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