Southeastern Texas, February 16-28,2005

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A family of Whooping Cranes--parents and a first-year juvenile (with partly rusty plumage), on the Aransus NWR. Whoopers are solitary (in contrast to sandhills, which congregate in groups), and a family stakes out a rather large foraging territory, with only very rarely more than one offspring.
Copyright © 2005 John Van de Graaff

A family of Whooping Cranes--parents and a first-year juvenile (with partly rusty plumage), on the Aransas NWR. Whoopers are solitary (in contrast to sandhills, which flock together), and a family stakes out a rather large foraging territory, with only very rarely more than one offspring.