Sad story from Indiana: last known breeding female Whooping Crane of
the eastern migratory population has been killed:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/last-successful-breeding-whooping-crane-shot-and-killed
Story in Terre Haute IN Tribune-Star news:
http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_343213701.html/resources_printstory
International Crane Foundation website/news:
http://www.savingcranes.org/releasedwhoopingcraneshotonmigration.html
There are fewer than 500 known living individuals of this N. American
species known on earth - a highly endangered bird.
http://www.operationmigration.org/index.html - Story Below from:
http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
December 9, 2009 / FIRST FAMILY FEMALE DEATH CAUSED BY GUNSHOT /
Reporter: Liz Condie
In a Press Release received shortly before 7:00pm CST this evening,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced the cause of death of
217*. The seven year old Whooping crane, matriarch of the First
Family, was shot. She was the dam of Wild601, the first Whooping
crane to be hatched in the wild in Eastern North American in more than
a century. The shooting occurred near the town of Cayuga in
Vermillion County, Indiana - sometime between November 28th, when she
was last recorded by trackers, and December 1st when her carcass was
found.
"This is likely the most important bird in the entire Eastern
Migratory Population," said Operation Migration CEO, Joe Duff. "We are
all saddened by the loss and troubled by the motive behind the act."
http://zeroextinction.org/
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Tom Fiore,
Manhattan
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