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media type="custom" key="3681019" Whooping Crane By Daniel H

The Whooping Crane is 59 inches. It is the tallest bird in North America. It has a wingspan of 7 feet 6 inches. The average male weight is 17 pounds. The average weight for a female Whooping Crane 14 pounds. It can live up to 24 years in the wild. It has a long neck and legs, black wingtips ,a red forehead and cheeks, tufted feathers over the rump. Places where the Whooping Crane lives are Alberta, Canada, Wisconsin, and the Gulf of Texas. Some habitats for the Whooping Crane are the Wood Buffalo National Park, northeast Alberta, and Aransas National Wildlife Range in Texas. On winter grounds the Whooping Crane's diet consists of crustaceans, mollusks, fish such as eel, berries, snakes, and aquatic plants. In summer it eats frogs, mice, voles, smaller birds, fish, reptiles, dragonflies, damselflies, other aquatic insects, crayfish, clams, snails, aquatic tubers, berries, grasshoppers, and crickets. The Whooping Crane is endangered by limited habitat, but even though it's protected, it leaves the bird vulnerable to castrophic weather events or contaminent spills. Also developing near wintering sites also poses a concern. The number one death for adult Whooping Cranes is collisions with power lines during migration. In 2004, two Whooping Cranes were mistaken for Sandhill Cranes and shot to death by hunters. We can save the Whooping Crane by helping the Whooping Cranes during migration to help them by not leting them fly into power lines. Another way is to protect their habitats. Last we can donate to or join a organization for the Whooping Crane.