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Fall Ultralight-Guided Whooping Crane Migration
Wisconsin to Florida
Date: November 17, 2004 | Day 39
Adair Co., KY to Cumberland County, Tennessee!
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| Brooke Pennypacker swoops in low to the right of the young cranes
and performs an air pick-up as the three crane handlers try to
ensure all fourteen "cranelets" are out of the pen and
ready to take off. Note the four that haven't yet cleared the gate
of the enclosure? |
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| Because these four Whooping cranes were late exiting the pen they
did not take off with the rest of their flockmates... |
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| Brooke made a wide sweeping turn to double back and see if he
could convince them to join him in flight. |
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| Success! the four tardy birds leap into the air and begin to climb
out of the valley with the rest of the flock! |
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| Leaving their pen behind, all fourteen birds follow their
mechanical surrogate out of the Adair County, KY valley and begin
the 64-mile flight which will take them to their first Tennessee
migration stopover. |
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