The main thing limiting the Whooping Crane is the size and location of its ‘hibernation’ grounds. Whooping Cranes each need a minimum pace, which they guard immensely. Studies show that the Aransas Reserve could only sustain a hibernating population of 200 cranes. It is impossible to further increase the size of this refuge because it is surrounded by human development

c) How did man play a part in helping/hindering this process?

b) Could this happen to other similar species?

Man has tried to help the species re-populate. In early June of 1967, a team of Canadian and US scientists (now known as the Canadian Wildlife Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service) took six Whooping Crane eggs from Buffalo National Park nests for incubation. The collected eggs were put into a special portable incubator, heated by hot water bottles, and flown to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center near Laurel, Maryland where they were hatched. Unfortunately, the cranes often failed to breed in captivity and the birds bred into captivity were prone to disease. The nest disturbance did not prevent the adult Whooping Cranes from successfully hatching the eggs that were left. The Northwest Territories and Texas population increased from 43 birds to approximately 150 birds between the beginning of egg collection in 1967 and the end of 1993. Even to this day the population of Whooping Cranes once again growing, but it will indeed take a rather long and tiring time. But well worth the time!

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