Record Number Of Sandhill Cranes Winter In Arizona This Year
Sustainability coverage is supported in part by Intel TOMBSTONE — You can hear their cacophony long before you can see the sandhill cranes at Whitewater Draw Wildlife Area. It’s a thunderous clacking as thousands of the big birds trumpet back and forth. As the sun sinks, wave after wave of the migratory birds glide gently to the wetlands below, wings outstretched like paragliders. They roost overnight in these wetlands, about 30 miles southeast of Tombstone, safe from coyotes, after a day...
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