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Whooper Happenings_37 Whoopers Can't Sing?! With the weather as bad as it has been across the Midwest, it was inevitable that the team would hit the holidays. Most have gone home to be with their families, but a few remain in North Alabama to stay with the birds and care for them. The migration will resume just before New Yearâs, with expectations of making Florida by mid-month. Beverly talks about the birds and this yearâs migration, and the real reason the change was made to the migration route. In case youâve ever wondered ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_36 Moving ON... Finally! The OM team and their entourage have now arrived at their second stop into Illinois, and will next be at the first new stop on the revised migration route. I talked with OMâs Liz Condie about how the team is doing with so many grounded days. Weather has just not been in their favor many mornings, wind and rain the main issues. I spoke with Marty Folk about the Whooping cranes that remain as part of the non-migrating flock on the Kissimmee Prairie. The team has decided that no more bird ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_35 On Their Way... The Operation Migration team is almost into Illinois at this time, as wind and rain have made for many no-fly days. The highly aggressive bird who 'took out' 3 other flock members this summer... #810, has been released on his own and is doing well with other older Whoopers. He should soon be heading south with his peers or Sandhills, and will likely be in Florida long before the OM team with his flockmates! We talked with OM's Heather Ray for the first time. Heather goes back to the S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_34 Another Chick Loss... As the start of migration approaches, things haven't gone as the team would like! Weather issues have led to many down days, and the flight training, so important to get these birds to fly as a flock, has been intermittent. The flock is now down to just 14 birds, since the aggression of #810 forced them to have this bird sent out as a sort of DAR release. This bird injured 3 other birds, ultimately leading to the death of #807, and 809 being sent back to Patuxent for his genetic value, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_33 A Bird in Crisis... WIN a copy of Dr. Hughes new book, 'CRANES' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_32 A Better Way... In this longest-yet episode of Whooper Happenings, Bev and Brooke talk about the 2008 chicks and the new migration route they worked so hard on, Marty Folk discusses the Kissimmee Prairie birds and loss of all the chicks this season. It has been a tough, dry year so far! Joe Duff talks about the new migration route and his expectations for the upcoming migration. The new route, which differs greatly from the past years, hopefully will expedite the migration this year, saving time and m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_31 IMBD at DAK... This was the 3rd year that Operation Migration celebrated International Migratory Bird Day at Disney's Animal Kingdom. We talked with many of the guests, and shared the enthusiasm we all have for helping to save this endangered bird. Also we have information about how the Whoopers and Whooping crane chicks are doing. Do send us a comment or suggestion at whooperhappenings@earthlink.net . Thanks! Operation Migration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_30 Happy Earth Day! Somehow, it seems that if you are thinking about Whooping cranes and their welfare, you just have to be thinking of ways to better save energy and avoid environmental waste! This is Earth Day 2008 as I post this podcast, and the past 38 years do seem to have run by so fast! I can recall picking up junk along roadsides on Eastern Long Island that first day, along with snapping dozens of photos which were displayed the next day in the high school office window. Being a yearbook student pho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_29 Waiting For the Spring... It seems like a long winter this year, and even though the birds just arrived at Chass less than 2 months ago, they are getting ready soon to make their first northward migration back to Necedah, WI! Older adults such as #101 are already there, with others heading north right behind him. Route changes for this year's migration are not yet completely firm, but when they are Joe Duff will tell us about them. In this podcast I have the 2 winners from the question I asked last time, and we t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_28 The Journey Ends With the flyover at the Dunnellon, FL airport the morning of January 27th, and the final flight of the chicks to their winter home at Chassahowitzka NWR the following morning, their journey is complete! In just a few months they will get the urge to migrate north, and with luck, weather and timing on their side, we hope all 17 make it back to Necedah! It is always with mixed emotions that each pilot brings in his birds at Chass (they don't land with the birds) and as they pull up and away ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_27 Just Days Away With several more migration legs behind them, the Operation Migration team and those accompanying them are exercising their usual care and judgement. Weather being the culprit, they have experienced way too many down days, but they will take advantage of any day where winds and conditions are in their favor. With the 90 day mark behind them, their patience has been tested many times on this migration, but they still won't rush and risk injury or worse to pilots or birds. It's just a matt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whooper Happenings_26 For One Bird... As the OM team made the last leg of their migration through Southern Indiana, one birdâ #733, decided to drop out and go his own way. Many people spent days looking for this guy, but it wasnât until over 5 days later he was finally located and recovered! His return to the flock represents manyhours of hard work, searching, hours in the air for pilots Jack Wrighter and Dave Mattingly in the top cover aircraft and for the ultralight pilots as well. Many hundreds of calls from local spotters a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |