I received this email from a professor from college and thought it might interest some of you about the whooping crane.

Whooping Crane Census Flight
February 11, 2009 seventh aerial census of the 2008-09 crane season was conducted February 11, 2009 with USFWS observers Tom Stehn and Carey Strobel in a Cessna 210 piloted by Gary Ritchey of Air Transit Solutions of Castroville, Texas.  Weather conditions were good for the census, although winds aloft made surface conditions somewhat choppy. We only found 229 whooping cranes, but time limitations required us to make wider transects in some areas which as expected resulted in overlooking some of the cranes.

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