An endangered whooping crane returning to Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) after over-wintering at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas was shot and killed on April 20 in South Dakota.
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Radio-tagging and careful preparation against a suspected drought have quelled biologists’ fears of an expected drop in the whooping crane population at their wintering grounds in Aransas, Texas.
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Over half of the Wood Buffalo-Aransas flock of whooping cranes has arrived on the wintering grounds in and around the Aransas Wildlife Refuge on the Gulf Coast in Texas.
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As the first frosts settle in, Wood Buffalo National Park’s beloved whooping cranes are on their way to their winter home in south Texas, and scientists are tracking exactly what route they take to get there and what they do along the way.
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A US wildlife advocacy group is voicing its concern that construction of TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline from northern Alberta to Texas through the midwest could render the endangered whooping crane extinct in North America.
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When an endangered species like the whooping crane decides to nest outside of its protected area, it becomes vulnerable to all sorts of human threats.
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