How to Use whooping crane in a Sentence

whooping crane

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Definition of whooping cranenext
  • Wampanoag is the 394th whooping crane raised or housed at ICF.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2021
  • So far the good news is that no whooping crane has died from or been detected with the virus.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
  • But the penalties levied on those who shoot whooping cranes tend to be far lower.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Tex, a female whooping crane at the San Antonio Zoo, was part of the trouble.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The whooping crane, or Grus americana, is one of the rarest birds in North America.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • Standing around five feet tall, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America, and one of the most endangered.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Bryce, the wayward, injured and trouble-maker of a whooping crane, died at the Louisville Zoo on Wednesday.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Return in the morning and listen as a mated pair of whooping cranes standing in the salt marsh call to each other.
    — Jody Schmal and Mizanur Rahman, Houston Chronicle, 29 June 2018
  • By the time ornithologist Robert Porter Allen was born on this day in 1905, the whooping crane was already in trouble.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Young said there’s one whooping crane that tends to frequent the fields near the observation building, but the others tend to spread out all over the refuge.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The state's whooping crane team is hoping W13-20 will become part of the long-term success of the recovery program.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The unprecedented fledging of a wild whooping crane at Horicon was decades in the making.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2020
  • A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild.
    — Janet McConnaughey, ajc, 8 Sep. 2022
  • These scientists set out to answer these questions by studying the life history of the whooping crane.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Last November, a whooping crane was killed in Jefferson Davis Parish.
    — Sara Sneath | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • But the Kissimmee Prairie region of Central Florida proved to be a difficult place for whooping cranes to survive and hatch chicks.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Young men joined the CCC and achieved a great range of commendable objectives, from the rescue of the whooping crane to massive projects of reforestation and fish stocking.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
  • She and Brooks had first spoken in 2018 about the whooping crane habitat, which the board, including Collins-Bratton, approved unanimously.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2020
  • White Oak has previously bred sandhill cranes but never whooping cranes, Shurter said.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 9 May 2018
  • This is especially true for the endangered whooping crane, which spends time during migration at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge along the gulf.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Birding and conservation groups got involved after the whooping crane became one of the first species on the federal endangered species list in 1967.
    — Lindsay Fendt, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2020
  • Many others, such as the California condor, the grizzly bear and the whooping crane, have seen remarkable recovery progress.
    — Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • In the 1970s an effort began to rehabilitate the whooping crane population, much of it led by the ecologist George W. Archibald.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • The whooping crane recovery plan was created jointly by U.S. and Canada.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2021
  • Since then, 100 whooping cranes raised in captivity have been released in Vermillion Parish.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • To initiate mating, whooping cranes perform a marvellous dance, complete with head bobs, high jumps, and pirouettes.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The whooping crane's habitat in North America stretches from Florida to Canada.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 9 May 2018
  • Brulliard writes: [T]he whooping crane program's end is a profound shift at Patuxent, which does plenty of other research but none so central to its identity.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
  • At the Bee Lab, a former garage used for a whooping crane breeding program and then abandoned when the project ended years ago, Droege and his team collect, preserve and photograph the area’s native bee population.
    — Katie V. Jones, baltimoresun.com, 20 May 2021
  • In a southwest Louisiana crawfish pond, two endangered whooping crane chicks peck about for crawfish, insects, plants and other food.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2018

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