It's nice to see Whooping Cranes in Rice County again. Have Cranes 7-07 & 39-07 produced any offspring? The Whooping Cranes from Necedah NWR all seem to have low or no reproduction. Is there any move to relocate the captive flock effort to a more natural nesting area farther north where black flies don't interfere and they can have more success? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: dan&erika To: mnbird ; [log in to unmask] ; Ricebird Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:15 PM Subject: [mnbird] More Whooping Crane Information Eva Szyszkoski of the International Crane Foundation writes: "Based on the bands I could pull off of your photos, these two birds are adult breeding pair numbers 7-07 and 39-07. They are both four years old. They nested this year near the Necedah NWR but abandoned their nest on 4 May. Two eggs were collected (one infertile, one fertile but addled). They have a history of moving into Minnesota in the summer or fall every year (except for last year when they molted and were unable to fly for ~6 weeks). They will most likely begin migration south from Minnesota and will not return to Wisconsin before then. No. 7-07 was raised and released using the ultra-light release method and no. 39-07 was raised and released using the Direct Autumn Release method. They have been together for about three years now." Photos are at http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://sites.google.com/site/tallmanorum http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika [log in to unmask] ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ mnbird mailing list [log in to unmask] http://lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird Unsubscribe: %(user_optionsurl)s ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html