THE WHOOPING CRANE REPORT SITE MAP |
This site map lists the types of reports we've posted and the topics covered in each one. There are three kinds of web pages: General Information Pages, Whooping Crane Chick Reports that followed the life of a young chick until he was released in the wild, and Whooper Reports which are general reports about different aspects of the work we do here at Patuxent that helps contribute to the restoration of the whooping crane. The reports are listed in the order in which we posted them. You can find our current report here. |
http://whoopers.usgs.gov
— Our main web page where the most current whooping crane report
is posted.
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Patuxent
Whooping Crane Information and Resources. This page lists scientific
work being undertaken at Patuxent that is relevant to the restoration of the
whooping crane and that affects other crane species. It also lists
scientific publications available on the web, and other related links. |
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The Whooping Crane -- International Symbol of Conservation | |
Why are whoopers endangered? Should we care about saving the whooping crane? | |
Whooper FAQs Frequently Asked Questions about Whooping Cranes. | |
Pictures See our Whooping Crane Photo Gallery. | |
Cool Facts about whooping cranes. | |
Links Related links to information on the web about whooping cranes and other topics. | |
Crane world (German) This site is dedicated to behavior, intelligence, and communication research on cranes. |
Patuxent's Whooping Crane Chick Reports The Patuxent whooper web page started by following the hatching and life of a young chick every day for two weeks. After that, we charted the progress of the chick every 2 weeks, then, when the chick was grown and had been sent to the non-migratory flock in Florida, we went to monthly Whooper Reports. You can still review the web pages, below, showing the progress of the chick we followed during the Spring of 2000. They are listed in the sequential order as they were posted. |
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Hatch Day Minus 4 — Countdown to hatching. In 4 days this egg becomes a whooping crane. Cool facts about whooper eggs. This was the very first web page posted for the whooper reports. 4/27/2000 |
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Hatch Day Minus 3 — Countdown to hatching. In 3 days this egg becomes a whooping crane. More cool facts about whooper eggs, plus a sound file that lets you can hear the crane chick peeping inside the egg. 4/28/2000 |
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Hatch Day Minus 2 — Countdown to hatching. In 2 days this egg becomes a whooping crane. Cool facts. More cool facts about whooper eggs, plus a sound file that lets you can hear the crane chick peeping inside the egg. 4/29/2000 |
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Hatch Day Minus 1 — Countdown to hatching. In 1 day this egg becomes a whooping crane. More cool facts about whooper eggs. 4/30/2000 |
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Our chick is almost out. The chick is hatching today. Cool facts about newly hatched chicks. 5/1/2000 |
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WHOOPING CRANE CHICK: DAY 01. OUR CHICK HAS HATCHED! Cool facts about the parents of our chick. 5/2/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 02. Not yet walking. Cool facts about how we teach the chick to eat and drink. 5/3/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 03. Learning to eat and drink. Cool facts about how whooper parents teach their chick to eat and drink. 5/4/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 04. Gaining weight as the chick grows. Getting to know the live whooper imprinting model. Cool facts about the imprinting model. 5/5/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 05. Going outside for the first time. Cool facts about how to determine the chick's sex. 5/6/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 06. Our chick's grandparents: Canus & mate. Canus is the oldest whooper at Patuxent. Cool facts about feather color and how it will change. 5/7/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 07. Medical care for whooper chicks. Cool facts about why we weigh the chicks daily. Our chick has a name! Patuxent or "Tux" for short. 5/8/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 08. Talking chicks for walks for exercise. Cool facts about exercise and how it helps the chicks grow. 5/9/2000 |
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Whooping Crane Chick: Day 09. Swimming the chicks for exercise. Cool facts about exercise and how it helps the chicks grow. 5/10/2000 |
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Daily care in the crane chick building. Cool facts about what happens when crane chicks get sick or injured. 5/11/2000 |
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Taking the chicks to a small marsh. Cool facts about how we condition the chicks for release into the wild. 5/12/2000 |
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Parent-rearing whooper chicks; letting whooper adults raise the chicks. Cool facts about parent-rearing and proper imprinting. 5/13/2000 |
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Captive-raised whoopers raise chicks in Florida in the wild. Operation Migration uses Patuxent sandhills to experiment with training cranes to migrate behind ultralight aircraft. Cool facts about how we use sandhill cranes as surrogates for the whooping crane. 5/14/2000 |
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Last day of daily coverage of Patuxent's development. But reports will continue on the chick's progress and on other aspects of whooper work at Patuxent. We introduce the staff. Cool facts about what we project for Tux's future. 5/15/2000 |
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Patuxent at 30 days — Tux is 30 days old. How we deal with crooked toes, and angel wing problems. Cool facts about how dangerous leg problems are to a growing crane chick. 6/1/00 |
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Patuxent at 45 days — more information on parent-rearing; how we manage the care of growing parent-reared chicks. Cool facts about parent-rearing at Patuxent. 6/15/2000 |
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Patuxent
at 66 days—information on the non-migratory flock in Florida,
including pictures of parents with a chick. Cool facts about the
non-migratory flock, how many there are, and their nesting activities. |
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Patuxent at 91 days. Getting the chicks used to large ponds and roosting in water at night. Cool facts about why it's important for the chicks to learn to roost in deep water. 7/27/2000 |
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Patuxent at 126 days. The Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) Program at Patuxent. The YCC builds pond pens for the whooper chicks. Cool Facts about this year's "graduating class" of whooper chicks. 8/31/2000 | |
After the chick pages were complete, we started regular Whooper Reports. |
Every 4-6 weeks Patuxent posts a new web page on some aspect of our work with whoopers. The web page started by following the hatching and life of a young chick every day for two weeks (Whooping Crane Chick Reports). After that, we charted the progress of the chick every 2 weeks, then, when the chick was grown and had been sent to the non-migratory flock in Florida, we went to the following monthly reports. They are listed in sequential order as they were posted. Our Current Report can be found here. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #1: The
Mississippi Sandhill Crane. Information and pictures about this very
endangered crane and the refuge it lives on. Cool facts about Mississippi
sandhill chicks. 10/19/00 |
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Whooping Crane Report #2: The Patuxent chicks prepare for Florida, Part 1. "Tux" and the rest of his cohort will soon be sent to Florida. Before that happens, they must go through a strict medical procedure. Quarantine, Part 1. Cool facts about health issues involving captive-produced birds released into the wild. 11/29/2000 |
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Whooping
Crane Report #3: The
Patuxent chicks prepare for Florida, Part 2. More information about medical
tests and other procedures as the staff gets the birds ready to go to Florida. Quarantine, Part 2. Cool
facts about the different color changes the chicks go through as they grow
toward adulthood. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #4: The
Patuxent chicks are shipped to Florida. Pictures and information on the
process of transferring the birds to Florida for release. Cool facts about the
release program: how many birds, major predator problems, and genetic diversity
issues. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #5: Another Whooper breeding season begins. Pictures and
information on what we hope to accomplish this breeding season, and how we
measure our success. Cool facts about the last wild flock of whoopers and
research work being done at Patuxent. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #6: The
breeding pairs: Spike and Shelly. Pictures and information on our most
productive Whooping Crane breeding pair. Cool facts from the 2001 breeding
season report. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #7: The
chick's eye view: life from the viewpoint of the chick. Getting down to the
chick's level. More cool facts from the 2001 breeding season report. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #8: The first of our whooper chick videos. We add streaming
video to the website. 6/7/01. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #9: Exercising the chicks. New
crane video: taking the chicks for walks for daily exercise. 6/28/01. |
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Whooping
Crane Report #10: The Whooping Crane Reintroduction Event. New
crane video: Whooper Pre-Flight Training. Information about an event that
publicized the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) and the whooper
migration project. Links to our partners. |
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Whooping Crane Report #11: Environmental Enrichment: Keeping Whoopers Happy. New crane video: feeding smelt to the breeding colony. 8/23/01 |
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Whooping
Crane Report #12: The Dance. See new crane videos of the whoopers
dancing! 9/27/01. |
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Whooping Crane Report #13: The Breeding Pairs: Laz and Alta. Meet Laz and Alta, Patuxent's first naturally fertile pair. 11/01/01 |
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Whooping Crane Report #14: Project Updates: The Whoopers Fly all the Way Home! The first class of WCEP's migratory whooper chicks successfully arrives in Florida behind ultra-light aircraft. Also: updates on the progress of the experimental non-migratory flock. 12/6/01 |
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Whooping
Crane Report #15: Who
Decides What's Best for the Birds? The captive management meetings. |
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Whooping Crane Report #16: The Complicated Life of a Patuxent Whooper Egg. Egg management. 3/14/02 |
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Whooping Crane Report #17: Chick Season 2002 Begins! The first chicks of the year are being trained for the WCEP project. 5/2/02 |
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Whooping Crane Report #18:Another Whooping Crane Milestone! Wild Whooper Fledges in Florida! New videos. 6/13/02 |
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Whooping Crane Report #19:Whooper Chicks Fly to Wisconsin—With Help from a Private Jet! Seventeen chicks are sent from Patuxent to become part of the WCEP project. 8/1/02. |
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Whooping Crane Report #20:WWW = World Wide Whoopers! Finding whooper links on the web. 9/12/02. |
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Whooping Crane Report #21:The Breeding Pairs: Kate and Ernie. Meet Kate and Ernie, one of Patuxent's well-established breeding pairs. Also: updates on the chicks in Wisconsin and Florida. 10/17/02. |
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Whooping Crane Report #22:Another Successful Migration! The second WCEP migration is completed as the chicks arrive in Florida. Links to our WCEP partners. 12/12/02. |
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Whooping Crane Report #23: Remembering Canus, 1964-2003. Canus, our foundation sire and the first whooper to come to Patuxent, passes away. We honor his life and legacy. 1/30/03 |
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Whooping Crane Report #24: Remembering Bruce. We remember Bruce Williams, part of Patuxent's family for nearly 40 years, and his many contributions to the crane program. 3/6/03. |
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Whooping Crane Report #25: Egg Transfer from the San Antonio Zoo to Patuxent. Whooper eggs produced at the San Antonio Zoo are brought to Patuxent, where the chicks will be raised to be part of the WCEP migratory project. 5/8/03. |
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Whooping Crane Report #26: Whooper chicks—growing up fast! This year's WCEP chicks are growing up and getting trained for this year's migration. Also: Florida update, Wisconsin update, and breeding season updates on the Patuxent colony. 6/12/03. |
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Whooping Crane Report #27: Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership GRADUATING CLASS of 2003! Meet the WCEP chicks who'll be part of this year's migratory flock. Also: Florida update. 7/24/03.
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Whooping Crane Report #28:Hurricane Isabel Visits Patuxent, But the Cranes Weather the Storm! Also: update on WCEP chicks, and Florida update. 9/25/03. | |
Whooping Crane Report #29: Visit Our New Site Map and check our updates on the WCEP migration and the Florida non-migratory flock. 11/20/03 | |
Whooping Crane Report #30: The Breeding Pairs, Hal & Hanna. Meet Hal and Hanna, "old H pair", now our oldest breeding pair. 1/15/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #31: Is It Spring Yet? Read about winter in the crane colony. 2/26/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #32: An Eagle Scout Helps the Cranes, and New Feedsheds for the Yellow Series An Eagle Scout and The Friends of Patuxent help us get 20 new feed sheds, and the last row of the Yellow Series finally gets a face-lift. 4/1/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #33: Finally, Spring is Really Here! Meet the first 3 whooper chicks of the season slated for the WCEP migratory project. Our whooper reports will now be updated weekly to keep up with all the breeding season activities. 4/22/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #34: Current Number of Chicks: 4! The young WCEP chicks discover the outside world. Our whooper reports will now be updated weekly to keep up with all the breeding season activities. 4/29/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #35: The Chicks Meet the Trike The WCEP chicks, now over a week old, start training with Operation Migration's ultra-light trike. 5/6/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #36: See How the WCEP Chicks Have Grown Current number of chicks: 11! Meet the cohort. WCEP #02 discovers his footbath. 5/13/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #37: Correcting Crooked Toes. Current number of chicks: 14! Current news of the chicks at Patuxent, and a detailed report on dealing with crooked toes. 5/20/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #38: Socializing in the Pond. Current number of chicks: 17! Current news of the chicks at Patuxent, pictures of the oldest chicks socializing in the pond, and lots of pics of the youngest birds. 5/27/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #39: How We Have Grown. Current number of chicks: 18! Current news of the chicks at Patuxent, pictures of the chicks training with the trike, and information on training. 6/9/04 | |
Whooping Crane Report #40: We've Gone to Wisconsin. Our first seven birds go to Necedah. Current number of chicks: 22! Current news of the chicks at Patuxent, pictures of the oldest chicks socializing in the pond, and lots of pics of the youngest birds. 6/22/04 |