Tag Archives: Endangered Whooping Cranes

Before the time changed

02 Sunday Nov 2014

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The International Crane Foundation closed for the season on Friday, October 31st. The Whooping Cranes who live there have a beautiful exhibit, which includes a substantial wetland where visitors can sit, reflect on the plight of the species and realize that there is hope for the world’s rarest crane to recover from a brush with extinction. To learn more about the history of Whooping Cranes, visit ICF’s website – savingcranes.org WC_ICFexhibit_x7This Whooping Crane, called Omega, hatched from the last egg to be collected from a nest in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta/Northwest Territories, Canada. He hatched at ICF in the late 1990s and has been in the exhibit with his mate, Seurat, for the past three years. Click on the image for a larger view.

Photo by Ted Thousand, ©2014.

George & Tex

06 Saturday Nov 2010

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International Crane Foundation Co-founder, Dr. George Archibald, established a unique relationship with a genetically valuable Whooping Crane named Tex in the mid-1970s. Tex was imprinted on people because she had been hand raised by the Director of the San Antonio Zoo. We created an exhibit this season at ICF to tell the story about how this effort aided in bringing the Endangered Whooping Cranes back from the brink of extinction. In the 1940s, only 21 of North America’s tallest birds were alive on the planet. Only 15 would contribute to the genetic pool resulting in the 573 Whooping Cranes we have today. This includes both wild and captive birds.

To learn more about the exhibit and ICF’s work check out George & Tex.

For a special treat, go to ICF’s new CraneTube Channel on YouTube and watch Dr. Archibald tell the story of Tex and her only offspring, Gee Whiz, in his own words.