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Partnership Study on Nesting Success of Eastern Migratory Whooping CranesBlack flies may be responsible for a high number of whooping cranes abandoning their nests in the core reintroduction area in central Wisconsin. To test this hypothesis, the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), the coalition of public and private groups that is reintroducing whooping cranes to eastern North America, has been conducting a multi-year study to examine the causes of nest abandonment.
The specific goal of this study is to temporarily remove target species of black flies from the environment and examine whooping crane nest success as a result. Other factors that may relate to reproductive success are also being examined, including predation, food availability, and age/nesting experience of the birds in the population.
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Whooping Crane Nest Production Studies Whooping Crane Project Update: April 4 to May 1, 2013General Maximum size of the eastern migratory population at the end of the report period was 106 birds (55 males and 51 females). Estimated distribution at the end of the report period or last record included 98 whooping cranes in Wisconsin, 2 in Michigan, 3 at unknown locations, and 3 long term missing. Male 13-11 who has been missing since fall migration 2011 is now considered dead and is not included in the population totals above.
2012 WCEP Annual ReportPREFACE The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) reached its 12th season in 2012. Since the inception, our goal has been to establish a self-sustaining migratory population of whooping cranes to eastern North America – that is 120 adult whooping cranes with at least 30 breeding pairs, whereby the population is sustainable through reproduction and survivorship to maintain or grow that population from there. In the 12 years, WCEP has released 207 cranes into the wild; a little more than half are still out on the landscape.
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2013 Whooping Crane Spring Migration is UnderwayThe Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), an international coalition of public and private groups that is reintroducing whooping cranes to eastern North America, reports the 2013 spring migration is well underway.
As of April 3, there were 84 whooping cranes confirmed in central Wisconsin. Most notably, both wild-hatched chicks from the 2012 season have returned with their parents to the locations where they hatched last spring. W1-12 is a young male whooping crane that hatched on April 30, 2012, and W8-12 is a female that hatched on May 21, 2012.
Whooping Crane Project Update: March 6 to April 3, 2013General Maximum size of the eastern migratory population at the end of the report period was 108 birds (56 males and 52 females). Estimated distribution at the end of the report period or last record included 84 whooping cranes in Wisconsin, 2 in Illinois, 8 in Indiana, 1 in Tennessee, 3 in Florida, 6 at unknown locations, and 4 long term missing.
Whooping Crane Update; Feb. 4 to March 5, 2013General Maximum size of the eastern migratory population at the end of the report period was 108 birds (56 males and 52 females). Estimated distribution at the end of the report period or last record included 54 whooping cranes in Indiana, 9 in Florida, 12 in Alabama, 7 in Tennessee, 6 in Illinois, 8 in Kentucky, 3 in Georgia, 3 at unknown locations, 4 not recently reported, and 2 long term missing.
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