Journey North Whooping Cranes

Highlights and Migration for Hatch Year 2002

Pre-Migration

April 12 First to Hatch
April 13 Cuddle Up
April 16 Learning From Role Models
April 18 Hey, Baby! First Lessons
May 1 Catching On to Feeding
May 3 Weighing In
May 15 The Plane and the Plan
May 21 Hello, World! All Chicks Hatched
May 23 Exercise, Exercise
June 10 Necedah Gets Ready for the Whooper Chicks
June 12 Goodbye Patuxent, Hello Necedah
June 15 Smart Dummies
June 17 Flight School at Necedah
June 28 All Chicks Now at Necedah!
July 1 Whose Territory is This, Anyway?
July 6 Swamp Monster!
July 12 Two on the Ground and One in the Air
July 14 Wolves and Other Dangers
July 20 A Memorable Sight
July 30 All Birds Fledged!
August 6 She's BAAAAK
August 25 Ten Together
August 27 ARGH! Health Checks and Banding
September 4 Feeling Betrayed--But Getting Over It
September 10 Crabby Times
September 11 Trying to Catch Up
September 13 Foggy Days and Watching for Stress
September 17 Back to Speed
September 18 Seventeen Together--Except for One
September 19 Calling All Colts!
September 21 Sixteen Take Off Together
September 24 Some New Details
September 26 Up at Dawn
September 30 New Target Date
October 1 Following "Mom"
October 3 Who Does What?
October 7 Best Flight So Far!
October 9 Ready, Set...
October 10 Rainy Target Date: No Go
October 11 Still Waiting in the Wings
October 12 Grounded Again

The Migration

October 13 Take Off--and a Big Mixup
October 14 Regrouping
October 15 Too Windy to Fly
October 16 Twenty-three Miles With a Tailwind
October 17 Miserable Day: No Go
October 18 44.6 Miles and Holding
October 19 Ditto for Today
October 20 Airborne With Drop-outs Galore
October 21 Headwinds Prevent Flight
October 22 Standing Down in Green County, WI
October 23 Still Too Windy
October 24 S'no Go
October 25 Grounded Again
October 26 From Wisconsin to Illinois!
October 27 Yee-haw! Another 47.9 Miles
October 28 Gales Ground Migration
October 29 More Wind, More Rain
October 30 Longest Flight Yet!
October 31 Indiana!
November 1 Windy and Cold: Hanging Out
November 2 Still on the Ground in Windy "Indy"
November 3 Smooth Sailing to Boone County, IN
November 4 No Flight Today
November 5 Down and Out in Boone County
November 6 Waiting
November 7 Two Groups Now
November 8 Teams Grounded by High Winds
November 9 Still Grounded in Indiana
November 10 Same Story
November 11 Go Birds, Go!
November 12 On a Roll! Into Kentucky
November 13 Last Stop in Kentucky!
November 14 Now in Tennessee!
November 15 Stopped by Rain
November 17 Weekend Weather Stalls Migration
November 18 Up, Up and Away!
November 19 Fogged in at Meigs County, TN
November 20 Standing Down, but The Race is On
November 21 Still Not Flying
November 22 No Go
November 23 Crew and Cranes Divided Again
November 24 Together in Georgia--and Another Thrill!
November 25 Onward, Cranes!
November 26 Soaring Ahead
November 27 19 Wild Whoopers in Florida!
November 28 Chassahowitzka, Here They Come--82.5 Miles to Go!
November 29 Almost Home Free!
November 30 Whoop it Up! Migration Complete
December 2 It's a Wrap!

Produced in Collaboration with the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership