Whooping Cranes
They ARE Whoopers!
Dimly seen through a dreamlike fog and mist, the six huge birds are unmistakably, absolutely, incontrovertibly juvenile Whooping Cranes: five-foot tall, white-splotched-with-brown, black-tipped-winged wonders and the rarest bird species in North America. What are they doing in Monroe County? That, is, besides wading and eating the occasional frog or bite of corn as they slowly […]