192pp. color photos, maps. Covers current knowledge of whooping crane biology and documents. with excellent color photos and maps, the recovery efforts since 1944 in Aransas, Patuxent, Baraboo, Wood Buffalo National Park/Canada, and elsewhere. Radio tracking, propogation and release with captive-reared cranes, and other methods are examined. Appendixes on the status of Genus Grus cranes, Whooping Crane Fact Sheet. Notes, bibliography, index.

WHOOPING CRANES BIRDS TEXAS BIRD PROTECTION CONSERVATION