Where do Whooping Cranes live?
The only remaining whooping crane natural population nests in Wood Buffalo National Park where the bird spends its summers. The whooping crane winters at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) on the Texas gulf coast. Whooping cranes were once found over most of North America from the arctic to central Mexico and from the mid-Atlantic coast and New England to Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico. A flock of non-migratory (resident) birds persisted in southwestern Louisiana until the late 1940s. The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has been involved with establishing non-migratory and migratory flocks of whooping cranes in Florida. Due to a number of problems, no further releases will be made into the non-migratory flock. See this news release (http://research.myfwc.com/news/view_article.asp?id=31345) for more details.
