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Driven from their natural habitat by the settlement and urbanization of North America, ravaged by hunters, the proud, solitary and beautiful whooping cranes have long been on the verge of extinction. By the mid 1940's, only 27 wild whooping cranes were observed on the birds' winter grounds in the Aransas Wildlife Refuge along the coast of Texas. And in the spring of 1945, these 27 birds - the only wild whooping cranes left in the entire world - flew off as always on the long, hazardous journey to their summer nesting grounds somewhere in the far north of Canada. Where were these nesting grounds? No one knew. Determined to save the cranes as a living species, the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working in partnership with the Canadian Wildlife Service, decided that it was imperative to locate the cranes' nesting grounds. Perhaps then measures could be taken to protect the newly hatched fledglings and their parents from animals and human enemies both in the nesting grounds, and along the migration route back to Aransas, studded with hunters who often shot the birds down at random. But few of the conservationists who embarked on the hunt anticipated th

Who reads The Hunt for the Whooping Cranes : a Natural History Detective Story?

Author

J.J. McCoy; maps and drawings by Rey Abruzzi

Publisher

Paul S. Eriksson, Publisher

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780839735007

Category

science

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Stem

Rating

3.4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13