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Crane in : Gruine cranes

[5] [crane-0-5] How close did whooping cranes come to zero? The Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock was about 21 birds in 1941. That na A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Crane, write , “Gruine cranes,” and 10, and leave league tables off the card. Why does this atlas use the red-crowned crane?

How close did whooping cranes come to zero? The Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock was about 21 birds in 1941. That nadir still defines US recovery graphs. What did George Archibald do at ICF? He courtship-danced with a human-imprinted whooping crane named Tex so she would ovulate -- a 1980s method story, not a field census.

A large share of the migratory island population winters on one Kyushu floodplain. Influenza years there are species-level events. Do cranes mate with a lifelong dance? Pairs are typically socially monogamous. The dance is pair-bond and territorial display, not a fairy-tale wedding.

Wintering red-crowned and white-naped cranes use the Civilian Control Zone. Peace-time development is a documented risk to that accidental reserve. Chicks imprint on humans and then fail to migrate or pair. Operation Migration ultralights (2001-2015) tried to teach a new flyway. Is the Hokkaido tancho a separate species?

The order on the card is year, line, figure. Crane is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.10

Figures to keep

Year of the note
10
Figure to keep
10
Species
Crane
Line in the log
Gruine cranes

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