whooping crane

Examples

• All

• Yes, there are declining or endangered species: the California condor and the whooping crane are the best known and perhaps the rarest.

  Academic text (1991)

• Among these species is the endangered whooping crane, which spends winters near the mouth of the Guadalupe and San Antonio rivers.

  Academic text (2008)

• The whooping cranes are here, all right.

  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)

• It's on the migratory flight path of the whooping cranes.

  Fiction book (1993)

• A bird expert projects slides of whooping cranes on the wall and gives a lecture about the habits of the birds.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I remember flocks of whooping cranes flying overhead twice a year, for crying out loud.

  Blog text (3)

• Ladies, as most of you have been informed, one of the fringe benefits of your stay here at the Rubber Rose Ranch is a rare opportunity to get a look at the world's last surviving flock of wild whooping cranes.

  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1994)

• By 1968, the world's whooping cranes had dwindled to one flock of 48 in a Texas marsh, plus a handful at Patuxent.

  Academic text (2003)

• Flows from the Guadalupe are also necessary to maintain the food sources of the endangered whooping crane, whose only self-sustaining population winters in this area (USFWS 1994).

  Academic text (2004)

• One of the most contentious debates in the region centers on the flow of the Platte River to sustain migrating populations of whooping cranes and piping plovers.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

W

whooper

vswhooping crane

• US

1 9.9

A rare large bird like a crane with black and white feathers that makes a loud trumpeting call

focuses on a loud trumpeting call rather than distinctive tone

G

Grus americana

vswhooping crane

• Specialized

9.9

A rare North American crane with white and black feathers and a loud trumpet call called the whooping crane

is the common everyday name rather than the scientific label

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology