While reading today’s Times Free Press, I ran across an article about how some folks are using ultralight aircraft to help parentless whooping cranes learn to migrate.
Currently, eighteen of the birds are being led south, and will stop at the Hiwassee State Wildlife Refuge in Meigs County (just north of here) in early November. Their final destination is the Gulf Coast of Florida. All told, the 1,200-mile trip from Wisconsin will take them two to three months.
This will be the fifth year this technique has been used, to great success. I find it pretty interesting that the cranes would follow a noisy aircraft, but hey … if it works, cool!
Read more: Whooping crane comeback
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