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Leading Whooping Crane Migrations
From the New York Times, we have Rescue Flight: a story of helping Whooping Cranes along on their migration.
At 200 feet, the first pilot, Chris Gullikson, was perfectly visible in his trike’s open cockpit. He was wearing his whooping-crane costume, a white hooded helmet and white gown that looked like a cross between a beekeeping suit and a Ku Klux Klan get-up. Gullikson and the other trike pilots were going to pick up the 14 juvenile whooping cranes that they were, little by little, leading south for the winter.
How do they imprint the juvenile cranes? Check out this video:
There’s lots more where that came from, on the Operation Migration YouTube Channel. Enjoy!
Links: Rescue Flight from the NY Times and Operation Migration on YouTube
