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Trumix.com listings available of Whooper Happenings Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Whooper Happenings_32 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 mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 | Visit Website 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 | Visit Website 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_27 Just Days Away With several more migration legs behind them, but at least 4 or even 5 left to go, the Operation Migration team and those accompanying them are exercising their usual care and judgement. Weather being the culprit, they are still experiencing a number of down days, but they will take advantage of any day where winds and conditions are in their favor. With the 90 day mark coming up fast, their patience has been tested many times on this migration, but they still won't rush and risk injury o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 many hours 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 spotter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_25 Finally-In KY! The OM team was stuck over the holiday in Southern Indiana, though the folks at the Muscatatuck NWR were happy to have them no doubt! Friday morning they were able, with much effort, to escape Southern Indiana and flew a tough flight into Shelby County, KY! Hiwassee, TN is now only days or a week away... we hope! Earlier this year I talked with Joe Duff, and he discussed the work of Operation Migration. This is the first in a 2-part chat with Joe about the history of OM. I also talked ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_24 The OM team is still in Wisconsin (they don't need to be reminded) as of this date (it's Halloween!) but there is hope they might be in Illinois by the weekend! All birds are doing well, but #727 prefers to be boxed (maybe she was a chicken in a previous life?) and trucked so far, and #710 just seems to be testing Beverly's and the team's patience! He must have genetic material along the same lines as #615 did! He loves to thermal and remained behind on several legs so far. Let's hope h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_23 Necedah was great! Peggy and I enjoyed meeting many people up there, and of course the OM team and those from Patuxent. We'll chat with Barb and Brian Clauss who have hatched and raised the Whooper chicks for the WCEP project since the beginning, Dr. Glen Olsen the veterinarian at Patuxent who comments on the chicks and the year looking back, Momma Crane (Bev Paulan) offers some comments, Brooke Pennypacker who knows the chicks as well as anyone on the team and Joe Duff discusses the year a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_22 The heat and dry conditions almost everywhere have affected us all, and the Whooping crane populations are no exception. Lack of rainfall is to blame for no propagation this year (or very little) in Wisconsin and Florida. Everyone involved with the birds is busy this time of the year, as migration is just weeks away. This time we talked with veteran ultralight pilot Brooke Pennypacker. He says that #101, who has been leading the birds on some of their circuits, should be put on the payroll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_21 In Whooper Happenings 21 we talk with Operation Migration Field Supervisor Bev Paulan, who has come full circle now with this season's hatching and raising of the new chicks. Bev talks about the emotional roller coaster we've all been on and how many chicks are expected for flight school in Necedah. We chat with Marty Folk, Whooping crane Field Supervisor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, about possible changes and expectations for the Class of 2007. Marty tells ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_20 This was the second year Disney invited Operation Migration to be their guests at Animal Kingdom for International Migratory Bird Day on May 12th.  Peggy and I were asked to take photos of the kids sitting in Joe's ultralight (a very important job!) and it was fun!  I hope the day was educational and informative for many who stopped by to hear about the Whooping cranes and work Operation Migration does. I talked with Beverly Paulan, Operation Migration's Field Supervisor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_19 A new breeding season is here, and a number of pairs of Whoopers have already laid eggs. The captive pairs at the San Antonio Zoo and Patuxent as well as in New Orleans at the Audubon Zoo have eggs, and the first chick is likely to hatch around April 16th at San Antonio. This will be the first OM bird for the ultralight program this year, #1-07! I talked with Beverly Paulan, Field Supervisor for Operation Migration, and she has new interns coming to work very soon. We will ask her about the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering the Class of 2006 This is what some of those who worked with the birds said during 2006 on WH. Many of you who listen to Whooper Happenings will recall hearing these comments by those who work the closest to the birds (save Margaret Black's class in Ontario, I used because it was cute! They all loved the Whooper chicks!).  If you have a comment, do leave it below. This has been re-edited slightly and several comments are different if you listened to the previous 'Salute' I posted. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_18 It's March, and migration has started! Birds are heading north, and it won't be long before eggs start to hatch! In fact, some Sandhill cranes have already laid eggs in Florida, and soon baby chicks will be hatching! We see a number of twins in the early part of the spring, though no doubt the parents often lose one of these chicks. But even later in the summer, we see twins and also in the fall! Sandhills have the advantage of much greater numbers than do their Whooper cousins. No def ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_17 (rev) The loss of the Whooping crane flock as a result of the storms of February 2nd has been very hard for the OM team, and all of us who loved these birds and supported them! Watching them hatch, grow and learn to fly and then migrate with the ultralights was marvelous! But like anything beautiful and fleeting, it is not necessarily ours, and we must learn that in an instant, it can be gone. Nature took the Whooping crane Class of 2006 from us, but she left us a bit of hope... crane #15-06 (615 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_16 Finally... we knew they'd all make it, but they are HERE! On December 19th, the young Whoopers arrived, flying over the Dunnellon Airport and impressing a crowd of about 800 people! Only 17 of the chicks made the flyover, as one was missing from the trip the day before into Gilchrist County. However, the next morning, the search resumed, and Richard Van Heuvelen, guided by top cover pilots Don and Paula Lounsbury, located the missing chick, #615, and found him only 30 minutes from the last ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_15 The Operation Migration team is still being grounded by high altitude winds and weather conditions, and their patience has been more than strained this year! However, the finish line is in sight now, and they should make Dunnellon, Florida in the next few days. It will be the longest migration for them yet, but all 18 birds have done well, and the team's spirits, though beaten a bit, will recover once they get here. Peggy and I went up to Central Georgia to visit them, and we barely miss ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_14 The Operation Migration team is in northern Tennessee, but has been there for over a week now! They aren't happy about that, as the weather, mostly high altitude winds, have grounded them and the birds. But their arrival in Florida could still be by mid December, all things dependent on the weather of course. We chatted with the man first to fly with Whooping cranes and lead a migration in 1997, Kent Clegg.  Also, we talked with Whooping Crane Coordinator with the USFWS, Tom Stehn; he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_13 The Operation Migration team is moving, but this year their time on the ground is becoming frustrating and the weather just hasn't been too friendly! Winds from the south and cold temps have made things difficult if not impossible some days. The team is currently in northern Indiana, and hopes to be on their way again SOON! I talked with Sara Zimorski, who's with the International Crane Foundation, and she will be tracking the Whooping cranes from previous years as they head south. Sara als ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_12 After 8 days in South Wisconsin, a break, and the team and the young Whooper flock are finally south of the border! They have arrived at their first stop in Illinois, but weather and conditions may not allow much progress from here right now. We talked with ultralight pilot and OM team meteorologist Chris Gullikson, and also Field Supervisor Bev Paulan the following day. The birds just became used to their environment in Sauk County, and were reluctant to leave on the 23rd. But quite a dif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_11 It's early October, and the Whoopers have flown! They are heading south, and while it was a slow start, things will begin moving rather quickly! This time around, we touch base the day of migration with Joe Duff, OM's lead pilot, and also Field Supervisor Beverly Paulan. Both are very busy, so we didn't keep them long! And then part 2 of our chat with Operation Migration's co-founder and chairman, Bill Lishman. The team really could use your support as a MileMaker spoonsor, so if you can co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_10 We are just a few weeks away from migration, and this year the Operation Migration team hopes to achieve lift-off on October 1st! The 18 young Whoopers are doing well, and the 2nd and 3rd cohorts have been mixed and are socializing well. Soon, the youngest birds will mix with cohort 1, and the flock will be complete! We'll hear from Beverly Paulan, Operation Migration's Field Supervisor. A few comments from Tom Stehn, National Whooping Crane Coordinator with the USFWS about his work with Ke ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_9 Can you believe it? It's August, and if the calendar is losing credibility, just step outside! It is HOT! High temps and lack of adequate rain in most areas have made this summer very difficult for the birds, but fortunately outside resources have brought in water to make life bearable in Necedah. Training is progressing, and the birds and staff are doing well. Recent loses of the adult birds from the 2003 flock have been felt, but there is so much to do and time is always a precious thing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_8 It's July, and hotter and more humid than ever here in Florida, and this has affected the Kissimmee Prairie flock which is holding its own and has 5 chicks this year.  Mark Nipper talks with us one final time as he leaves OM after 4 years.  Ultralight pilot and long-time OM ground crew member Richard van Heuvelen chats about his experiences and work with the birds way back before there even was an OM!  Brian Johns, Whooping Crane Coordinator for the Canadian Wildlife Services ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_7 "Things are crazy here at Patuxent", reports OM field supervisor Mark Nipper, "and the birds are equally crazy!" So many chicks have hatched in such a short time, that the staff really is working 24/7! Mark reports some birds are giving them a really tough time, but training at the circle pen is progressing. Due to audio difficulty, the call with Mark was not recorded, but we will have a report from him before the end of June when he leaves OM. We talked with the newest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_6 We will try to bring you up to speed, as a lot is happening mid-month. Mark Nipper is busy watching the eggs and baby chicks at Patuxent WRC in MD, and we'll talk with him. We begin a series of interviews with the Operation Migration ultralight pilots, this time Brooke Pennypacker talks about his work with OM, past experiences and his feelings about working with the birds. Next month Chris Gullikson will be our guest, followed by Richard van Heuvelen. We were invited to join OM's Joe Duff, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_5 It's early May, and our whitebirds are mostly back on the homefront in Wisconsin now, but the Aransas flock is still making their way home.  We are just days away from the first Whooper chick hatching (PS-first chick hatched 5/5/06), and we'll hear from Lara Fondow with the USFWS (recently with ICF) about the eggs from #213 & 218; Mark Nipper says they have plenty of eggs at Patuxent with more coming, and Sara Zimorski tells us how their nesting birds are contributing from the ICF. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_4 It's April 2006, and our Whoopers, their Sandhill cousins and so many others are migrating back north.  We'll hear from Operation Migration's Mark Nipper, and see how he's coping with 'empty nest syndrom' now that the birds have left Florida!  (They left on 3/27 and 3/28)  Joe Duff talks about numbers and the importance of conservation, Dr. John French, the Research Director at Patuxent Research Center discusses his expectations now that winter storm damage has been ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_3 In this March episode #3, we chat with Tom Stehn, National Whooping Crane Coordinator with the USFWS about the recent Port Aransas Whooper Festival, and also their guest speaker, Dr. George Archibald, co-founder of the International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin, and leading expert on all 15 species of cranes around the world. Dr. George discusses the bird flu epidemic and its global impact on migratory birds. We also report on the Kissimmee Prairie Flock and hear from Operation Migratio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_2 This episode reports the Florida white birds and how they're doing with Sara Zimorski and Mark Nipper, we hear about the Kissimmee Prairie flock from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission field supervisor Marty Folk, and Operation Migration's Joe Duff talks about last year's migration and working with the Whooping cranes. Photo info: Chris Gullikson approaches the Dunnellon, FL airport on December 13, 2005 with 7 juvenile Whooping cranes on his wing. The efforts of Operation Mig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whooper Happenings_1 This first episode has on-the-scene reporting from the Operation Migration flyover 12/13/05, and unsolicited as well as solicited commentary from those attending. Interviews with Sara Zimorski, Joe Duff, Walter Sturgeon and the new top cover pilots. Whooper Happenings will present current information about Whooping Cranes across North America and those who work with and help to preserve and guide this highly endangered species. Actual voice-cuts and interviews with the biologists who do the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website