As of Sunday, October 18th...11-young whooping cranes are at Stopover #1 and 9 are still at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge....waiting to begin their 1250-mile migration flight to Florida. According to the Operation Migration website....due to the high winds and wet weather last week...only 7 birds on Friday and 4 on Saturday will able to fly from the Refuge to their first stopover behind an ultra-light aircraft. Operation Migration has played a leading role in the reintroduction of endangered whooping cranes into eastern North America since 2001. In the 1940's....the species was reduced to just 15-birds.
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