Whooping Cranes are fascinating.
Whooping Cranes live in swampy, marshy places. They live in Alberta Canada during the summer which has pleanty of fish, snakes, and eggs to hunt. In the winter they fly 4,000 km to Texas because it's much warmer. While they are in mild Texas they gobble plants, insects, and frogs. Eventually the whooping cranes go back to wetlands and live their lives.
shallow water. The parents take turns watching 10 times a day while they incubate their eggs for 28-36 days. Because it takes 5-6 years for the chicks to become mature, the parents are very supportive. When predators sneak up, the parent who is watching over the eggs gets up cautiously and starts hissing and flapping its wings. Disaster is more likly to hurt the chicks than having poor parents. When those cranes grow-up they will build another nest and become great parents too.
Extinction means an animal is no longer in the world. For example dinosaurs are no longer alive because they are extinct. Whooping Cranes became rare in 1941 and only 15 cranes survived. Cranes only lay 2 eggs. One of the eggs hatches with a stronger chick who pecks at the other egg. Unfortunately the other fragile chick dies. In 1980 there were 83 cranes, but many cranes got hurt in a drought. Predators would gobble the eggs. The whooping cranes never became extinct probably since the sand hill cranes adopted the orphans. Luckily the cranes are still not extinct today compared to other animals.
Their habitat, parenting, and risk of extinction are just a few reasons why I think cranes are fascinating.
Whooping Crane Nest
Whooping Crane Chick
3 comments:
Good job!!
Hey! Karen, those were my words.... Good job Jamie!!!
Thank You…..
Jamie
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