Rescue Flight is an interesting article about ultralight planes leading whooping cranes migrations from Wisconsin to Florida. It is called Operation Migration. Operation Migration has been one of several organizations collectively trying to bring whooping cranes back to the eastern part of the continent. The baby whooping cranes were hatched at the federal government’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland. The birds never hear or see humans, only a worker disguised as an alpha whooping crane. From there they are taken to the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin where they learn to fly with ultralights.
I love efforts such as these. I am very familiar with the whooping crane and I appreciate it's existence in Florida. This method is interesting for acclimating a bird to the wild. I have seen it in a movie once with canadian geese, but never have read about it's use with whooping cranes.
Cited source
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/magazine/22cranes-t.html?_r=1&ref=earth
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