It's Whooping Crane Day

[DD]

Whooping Crane

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Whooping Crane

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Conservation status

Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]​

Scientific classificationKingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Gruiformes
Family:Gruidae
Genus:Grus
Species:G. americana
Binomial nameGrus americana
(Linnaeus, 1758)The Whooping Crane (Grus americana), the tallest North American bird, is an endangered crane species named for its whooping sound and call. Along with the Sandhill Crane, it is one of only two crane species found in North America. The whooping crane's lifespan is estimated to be 22 to 24 years in the wild

 

[audie]

when i glanced at this i thought i said "whooping cough" day....

 

[scooterbug44]

I love how they fly w/ their feet out. We took a trip to the International Crane Foundation to see them.

Did anyone else have to make 1,000 origami cranes when you studied Hiroshima?

 

[DD]

I love how they fly w/ their feet out. We took a trip to the International Crane Foundation to see them.

Did anyone else have to make 1,000 origami cranes when you studied Hiroshima?

No, can't say that I did.
I do love the cranes though. They like Texas.

 

[Lynnie]

I think I might rather like a Whooping Crane. I wonder if I lived where they live, if one might fly over and honk.

 

[aggieb]

 

[DD]

I think I might rather like a Whooping Crane. I wonder if I lived where they live, if one might fly over and honk.

Absolutely, one might!

 

[Matt J]

I'm with Audie on the misread. Apparently there's an outbreak in southern California due to people not vaccinating their children.