As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Wednesday 23 December 2015

Rare whooping crane migrates to north Alabama


POSTED 2:57 PM, DECEMBER 2, 2015, BY MEGAN BRANTLEY, UPDATED AT 04:06PM, DECEMBER 2, 2015

DECATUR, Ala. – The International Crane Foundation is asking for your help to protect a rare breed of crane that has made its way to north Alabama. The whooping crane has been migrating to our region since 2003, but conservationists say many still don’t know they’re here.
“Whooping cranes are the rarest of the crane species,” said Lizzie Condon of the International Crane Foundation.

There are only 600 of these cranes left in existence, even fewer still in the wild.  “You can find them only in North America. Some of them are in Canada, but most of them are here in the United States,” said Condon.

One of the tallest birds in the world, the cranes stand five feet in height. 


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