These whooping cranes were getting annoyed with their sandhill crane neighbors. As they flap and walk off you get a good view of the bands used to identify and locate individuals. The colorful band is used to identify the individual with color codes while the black and white band tracks them using GPS technology. To learn more about the endangerede whooping crane read our latest blog using the link belolw! https://cranetrust.org/news-events/the-prairie-pulse.html/article/2024/02/08/whooping-cran

Our sandhill and whooping cranes will all be heading north—raising chicks, defending their territories, and eventually migrating south in the fall. If you haven’t witnessed this remarkable migration yet, I invite you to visit our Nature and Visitor Center located off Interstate I-80, exit 305. Take a drive around the cornfields while the cranes are still in the area! Here are 3 crane facts: ✅There are 15 species of crane worldwide ✅They establish long-term monogamous bonds that usually last for