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Rescue Flight
nytimes ^
| February 19, 2009
| JON MOOALLEM
Posted on 02/20/2009 6:11:31 PM PST by JoeProBono
In a bid to save the endangered whooping crane, biologists and self-taught conservationists are donning hooded costumes and taking to the skies to lead the birds on their annual migration.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: birds; whoopingcrane
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To: JoeProBono
Great post.....first True smile I’ve had all day !!
by the way....Love your tag line !!!
L
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:47:28 PM PST
by
Thinkin
To: Thinkin
SMILING
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:48:43 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:50:36 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Life imitating Art!
The film was loosely based on the real-life experiences of Bill Lishman, a Canadian inventor, artist, and ultralight aircraft hobbyist. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lishman openly wondered if geese and similar birds could be taught new migration patterns by following ultralight aircraft onto which they had been imprinted. In 1993, after several years of logistical and bureaucratic setbacks, Lishman successfully led a flock of Canada Geese on a winter migration from Ontario, Canada to Northern Virginia, U.S.A. Of the 16 birds that participated in the migration, 13 of them returned the following year entirely on their own.
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:52:56 PM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: Young Werther
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:53:38 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
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posted on
02/20/2009 6:58:53 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/20/2009 7:19:37 PM PST
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Thinkin
To: Thinkin
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posted on
02/20/2009 7:21:31 PM PST
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: WildcatClan
I live in WI and every few years am able to watch the flock get underway
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posted on
02/20/2009 7:36:55 PM PST
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UB355
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/20/2009 7:45:46 PM PST
by
Thinkin
To: ottbmare
Hey, it works for the cranes! They don’t want you to migrate!
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:28:35 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/20/2009 9:30:33 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: JoeProBono
The small miracles that these folks work every day to preserve such a magnificent bird are
chronicled in this journal.
Bless them and their work.
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posted on
02/21/2009 6:15:17 AM PST
by
Daffynition
("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
To: JoeProBono
Florida? Why aren't they going to the Aransas Wildlife Preserve on the middle Texas coast where the Whooping Cranes have always gone?
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posted on
02/21/2009 6:23:52 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
An attempt to maintain 2 separate bloodlines
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posted on
02/21/2009 11:25:45 AM PST
by
UB355
The bottom line,
Public or private money?
To: Jakarta ex-pat
To answer your question:
Operation Migration relies exclusively on such hospitality. The organization, a nonprofit on an unforgiving $700,000 budget, gets almost no government money and so is left to scrape up the majority of its financing from individual donors.
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posted on
02/21/2009 2:17:33 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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