Whooping Crane

Question 1

What is the tallest bird in North America?

Answer 1

The whooping crane.

Question 2

What is the conservation status of the whooping crane?

Answer 2

Endangered.

Question 3

What is the lifespan of the whooping crane?

Answer 3

22 - 24 years

Question 4

What are some threats to the whooping crane?

Answer 4

Hunting and habitat loss.

Question 5

How many whooping cranes were left in 1941?

Answer 5

23.

Question 6

How many whooping cranes are in the wild currently?

Answer 6

437.

Question 7

What color are young whooping cranes?

Answer 7

Cinnamon brown.

Question 8

How tall is a whooping crane?

Answer 8

5 feet.

Question 9

What is the wingspan of the whooping crane?

Answer 9

7.5 feet

Question 10

How far can the call of the whooping crane carry?

Answer 10

Several kilometers.

Question 11

When will whooping cranes vocalize?

Answer 11

After waking up, when warning the flock of danger, when courting, and when defending their territory.

Question 12

Where do whooping cranes spend the winter?

Answer 12

In the southern or southeastern United States.

Question 13

Where do whooping cranes spend the summer and breed?

Answer 13

Canada or the Great Lakes region.

Question 14

Do whooping cranes nest on the ground or in the trees?

Answer 14

The ground.

Question 15

How many eggs do whooping cranes lay?

Answer 15

1 or 2

Question 16

What is the largest migratory stopover for whooping cranes?

Answer 16

The Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge.

Question 17

What is the favored habitat of whooping cranes?

Answer 17

Marshes.

Question 18

What are some predators of the whooping crane and its eggs?

Answer 18

Black bears, alligators, wolverines, gray wolves, red foxes, lynx, bobcats, and eagles.

Question 19

What species is devastating the whooping crane’s population in Florida?

Answer 19

The bobcat.

Question 20

Why are bobcats so abundant in Florida.

Answer 20

The fact that the larger predators are now extirpated or critically endangered.

Question 21

What do whooping cranes eat?

Answer 21

Crustaceans, frogs, small rodents, insects, smaller birds, mollusks, fish, berries, small reptiles, grain, corn, and aquatic plants.

Question 22

True or false, the whooping crane consumes more plants than other species of crane.

Answer 22

False, the whooping crane is more carnivorous.

Question 23

Why don’t whooping cranes process grains and corn as well as other species of crane?

Answer 23

They do not swallow gizzard stones.

Question 24

When was the whooping crane declared to be endangered?

Answer 24

1967.

Question 25

What is the cost of raising one wild whooping crane?

Answer 25

$100,000

Question 26

What do scientists use to train whooping cranes that have been raised in captivity to migrate?

Answer 26

An ultralight aircraft.

Question 27

What is the name of the project training whooping cranes to migrate?

Answer 27

Operation migration.

Question 28

What was the result of scientists placing whooping crane eggs in sandhill crane nests?

Answer 28

The whooping cranes learned to migrate, but failed to breed with other whooping cranes due to the fact that they were imprinted on sandhill cranes.

Question 29

What are some conservation efforts being made to help whooping cranes?

Answer 29

Preservation of habitat, captive breeding, and steep penalties for those who hunt whooping cranes.