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WHOOPING
CRANE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
Media Advisory
2004 Whooping Cranes Start Migration
On Your Mark, Get Set, Migrate!
Contact:
Necedah Refuge
(608) 565 2551
With luck
and good weather this year's young whooping cranes will head south following
ultra-light airplanes on Saturday October 9, 2004. Watch the departure
this year from Grand Dyke Road at "the bend" between the tower
and the Refuge boundary. If the weather is right, the departure could
start as early as sunrise (6:45 a.m.). Of course, like all flights, this
one is weather dependant. Wind or rain will keep the ultra-light planes
and the birds on the ground.
Joining the
thousands of sandhill cranes, mallard and wood ducks, Canada geese, and
trumpeter swans, are the one, two, and three year old whooping cranes.
The older "whoopers" migrate un-aided by humans.
You can feel
the excitement in the air as the birds ready themselves at Necedah National
Wildlife Refuge for their fall migration south.
For more
information and to follow along as the 2003 "whoopers" head
south please see these websites: www.bringbackthecranes.org www.operationmigration.org
and www.savingcranes.org .
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