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See our Site Map!

We have 8 web pages of General Information, 24 different Whooping Crane Chick Reports, and 40 Whooper Reports. There's lots of information, photos, and videos packed on these web pages, so check out our site map.

See our most recent crane videos!

Follow the cranes' progress with regular updates and pictures on Operation Migration's website in their Field Journal.

You can read current updates and see pictures of the WCEP migratory flock at the International Crane Foundations' migration website:  http://www.savingcranes.org/about/whats_new/. Their migration photo journal can be seen at: http://www.savingcranes.org/about/whats_new/.  

More updates and information on the WCEP project can be found at:
The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership
website and at the Journey North Whooping Crane website. 

Information about the WCEP whoopers' winter and summer homes can be found  at the Chassahowitzka NWR site and the Necedah NWR site.

Florida Update!

Information about last year's production can be found on the Whooping Crane Conservation Association's website under Flock Status

See our Crane Videos!

 

WCEP #05 can see his own face in the camera lens and gets closer to investigate "that other crane." #07, in the background, is content to let #05 be the brave one.

Click here to ask questions about Patuxent's whooping crane program.   And don't forget to check out our new SITE MAP to learn more about our previously published whooper reports.

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Other Patuxent Crane Information

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD, USA
URL http://whoopers.usgs.gov
Contact: Jonathan Male
Last modified: 07/17/2006
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