A
flock of endangered whooping cranes will soon move into their winter home at
the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.
The 7 cranes are
currently flying from Wisconsin to Florida as part of a federal program to
rebuild the bird’s population.
They were in
Georgia on Tuesday.
The cranes left
Wisconsin in October trailing an ultralight aircraft.
This is the 14th
year of the project led by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership.
The birds are
some of the most endangered in the world.
In 1950 there
were estimated to be only 16 whooping cranes remaining in the wild.
Presently there
are approximately over 500 birds in existence, about 97 in the
wild in eastern North America.
The St. Marks refuge
has a three-acre pen with two ponds to provide protective habitat for the birds
where they will stay until they migrate back to Wisconsin
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