Posted on 02/16/2014 10:44:36 AM PST by patriot08
A few Whooping cranes have been showing up here in Michigan over the last few years.
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Sorry I couldn’t make most of my links ‘live’.
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I wish we still had horny toads. Must be from Climate Change.
If I could afford it I would add to that reward and throw in an old fashioned Oklahoma stomping for free.
They left out the Texas Horny Toad.
Wiped out by fire ants and the chemical pushers....
More likely it's the human introduced fire ants killing off their food source the old red ants.
Ping to cat lovers..read about Texas’ beautiful little endangered wild cat.
I’ve seen pink flamingos (I think that’s what they are) flying about down here in Texas. Also big vultures that swoop down for my dog. At least I think it was a vulture. Twas a huge thing, huge wing-span, middle of the night. Just came down and almost got my dog. Was gone after it failed.
My first ‘Texas Treasures’ was about the Texas horned lizard:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3118606/posts
Thanks
Sounds more like a barn owl.
Snad Hill Cranes (Sandys) were used here in Florida as substitute parents to Whooping Cranes. Cranes will lay another egg if the first is taken soon after laying. This makes possible using the first egg to double the annual reproductive rate but twice the number of parents are needed - enter the Sandys.
It works. In Brandon, Fl a pair of Sandys was raising a Whooper when the Gubment AgencyPersons had to intervene. Seems the Sandy parents were taking their Whooper juvenile to construction sites AT LUNCHTIME!
Mr & Mrs Birdbrain were smart enough to realize when the equipment stopped moving and the featherless bipeds got off, all they had to do was walk up and part of construction worker lunches was offered.
If one wants lots of any critter like birds, put the issue up for bids. Hatchery owners can raise any number of birds the market will pay for, and will also condition the birds for a fee. Better, faster, and cheaper than AgencyPersons, too.
Sand Hill Cranes were once numerous, were shot down to very low levels, and have rebounded to the extent there is(and should be) a hunting season.
Same could be for Whoopers.
What does America want, AgencyPersons or Whoopers?
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We still have lots of them in New Mexico. Maybe the Texas kind were just not horny enough.
Incidentally for you city folk, they are not toads, they are actually lizards.
LOL!
I SAW that documentary! It was pretty clever, the way they raised the crane babies without “human interaction.”
Texas Icons; The horned lizard
Katy
A few Whooping cranes have been showing up here in Michigan over the last few years
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That’s great. Thanks
Sadly I read that 3 whooping cranes had been found shot recently.
If I could afford it I would add to that reward and throw in an old fashioned Oklahoma stomping for free.
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How sad that anyone would want to kill such a beautiful majestic creature.
Hope they find out who did it and throw the book at them.
Fines for killing them are pretty heavy.
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