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2001 Fall Whooping Crane Migration

Held Back

Adams County, WI - Oct. 18, 2001

Gusty winds again grounded our flock of pilots and whooping cranes. With luck, tomorrow will bring more cooperative weather and allow our team to continue migration.

"We'd hoped to move another twenty-one miles south," said Joe Duff, lead pilot for Operation Migration, "but the weather isn't cooperating."

Last night at 5:20 p.m. the tracking and capture team retrieved bird #4 at Wisconsin Department of Natural Recources's Meadow Valley State Wildlife Area, and brought it by truck to the Adams County site. Plans now are to give the bird a second chance to rejoin his flockmates on the migration.

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