whooping crane

A large North American crane (Grus americana) having predominantly white plumage and a loud trumpeting cry.

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whooping crane

(Animals) a rare North American crane, Grus americana, having a white plumage with black wings and a red naked face

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whoop′ing crane′

a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call.

[1720–30, Amer.]

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whooping crane - rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call

Grus americana, whooper

crane - large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world

genus Grus, Grus - type genus of the Gruidae: typical cranes

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Bringing Back the Whooping Crane (Animals Back from the Brink)

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Port Aransas, TX, January 17, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Registration is open for the annual Whooping Crane Festival scheduled for February 22-25, 2018 in Port Aransas, Texas.

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Out of the Blue

Bales, a naturalist and author, provides 12 essays about nature in East Tennessee, describing fleeting, short-lived, or transient flora and fauna: the short-eared owl; the jack-in-the-pulpit plant; the cerulean warbler; the ghost plant, which grows in areas without sunlight; the Appalachian panda, an ancestor of the red panda; the ruby-throated hummingbird; the freshwater jellyfish; the monarch butterfly; the seldom-seen lake sturgeon and its reintroduction into the waters of the Tennessee Valley; the whooping crane; the southern pine beetle; and the coyote-wolf and coyote-dog hybrids and their emergence in the eastern states.

Ephemeral by Nature: Exploring the Exceptional With a Tennessee Naturalist

Based upon the true story of George Archibald and Tex, a rare whooping crane, "Dancing With Tex: The Remarkable Friendship To Save the Whooping Cranes" is the exciting environmental rescue story of an amazing rare whooping crane by student/scientist George Archibald, and a string of other involved, crane -loving humans.

Dancing With Tex

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To exemplify, the order of the arteries branching from the subclavian artery is the axillary, coracoid major, pectoral and intercostal arteries in the Grus americana (whooping crane) (Fisher, 1955), the axillary, pectoral, intercostal and coracoid major arteries in the Grus antigone (sarus crane) (Glenny, 1947), and the sternoclavicular artery, axillary artery and thoracic trunk in the Eurasian bittern (Erdogan, 2012).

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Come and "take" it: whooping cranes, Texas water rights, Endangered Species Act liability, and reconciling ecological scientific testimony within the context of proximate causation