Order
Gruiformes
Family
Gruidae
Genus
Grus
 
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Whooping Crane Grus americana

Richard P. Urbanek and James C. Lewis
Version: 2.0 — Published January 15, 2015

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Figure 1. Distribution of the Whooping Crane in 2014. - Range Map
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Figure 1. Distribution of the Whooping Crane in 2014.

Distribution of the Whooping Crane in 2014. Populations shown are Aransas/Wood Buffalo population (AWP), Louisiana population (LP), Eastern Migratory population (EMP), and Florida (FP). Formerly this species was more widespread in the prairie wetlands of the northcentral United States and southern Canada (see text).

Recommended Citation

Urbanek, R. P. and J. C. Lewis (2015). Whooping Crane (Grus americana), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.153