whooping crane

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whoop
noun[C]
uk
/wuːp/us
/wuːp/
a loud, excited shout, especially showing your enjoyment of or agreement ...
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crane
noun[C]
uk
/kreɪn/us
/kreɪn/
a tall metal structure with a long horizontal part, used for lifting and moving ...
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In recent years, bald eagles, a peregrine falcon and awhoopingcranehave also been spotted.
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Species include ducks, geese, swans and the endangeredwhoopingcrane, which has its natural nesting place in the delta.
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Included in this list are the peregrine falcon, endangeredwhoopingcrane, and threatened bald eagle.
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Bobcats are considered the major predatory threat to the endangeredwhoopingcrane.
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Awhoopingcranecensus in 1941 counted only 15 migratory birds.
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It is the only natural nesting habitat for the endangeredwhoopingcrane.
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Occasionally, awhoopingcranecan be spotted among the thousands of grey sandhills.
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There is reportedly 20 nesting pairs of bald eagles on the refuge and there have been several sightings of the endangeredwhoopingcrane.
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The land serves as the largest free-roaming and self-regulated bison herd park in the world and the worlds only natural nesting site of thewhoopingcrane.
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Among the wildlife of the park include two hundred species of birds, among them the bald eagle, snail kite andwhoopingcrane.
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Whoopingcranesurvival depends on additional, separated populations.
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Scientists have long recognized the risk of having all of the wild whooping cranes using one wintering and breeding location.
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In the 1970s and 1980s the refuge served as the focus of an effort to establish a second wild population of endangered whooping cranes.
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It is believed that approximately 1,400 whooping cranes existed in 1860.
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Three remaining endangered whooping cranes from a failed attempt to establish a wild migratory population in the 1980s can be seen migrating with their foster species, the sandhill crane.
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