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Researchers survey endangered whooping cranes north of Rockport


Researchers survey endangered whooping cranes north of Rockport
There are some 500 of the endangered birds who call our area home for part of the year.
Author: Michael Gibson (KIII)
Updated: 4:53 PM CST March 9, 2021
ROCKPORT, Texas Over the weekend, researchers were out north of the Rockport area looking for whooping cranes. They were hoping to find those endangered birds that have already been banded by wildlife scientists in the past.
It s important work. Researchers with the International Crane Foundation and the Texas State Aquarium were looking for whooping cranes with a band wrapped around one of its legs.
There s been about 100 birds banded over the past 10 years, and we go and find them, document them, and then it s used in a survival survey study, said Dr. Liz Smith, Director of the International Crane Foundation. ....

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