WOOD BUFFALO-ARANSAS POPULATION NEWS

This just in… USFWS has posted a report on the Aransas NWR website. Click here to go to the report.

 

2 Comments

  1. Lori (loriearn) January 11, 2013 7:52 am

    Plus or minus 62?? For an endangered species, we need to be more accurate – if it’s 62 less, we are losing our precious whooping cranes & need to know that! (Same if it’s 62 more) But to leave it as a guesstimate? That’s outrageous! And critically dangerous to the future of this magnificent bird.

    http://operationmigration.org/InTheField/2012/11/21/at-last-florida/#respond

  2. John S. Perilloux January 10, 2013 1:41 pm

    I know I am beginning to sound like a broken record, but this is just too important to settle for anything but the best method of counting the whooping cranes in the Wood Buffalo/Aransas flock.The report speaks of “release a peak whooping crane estimate by the next update.” Tom Stehn gave us actual counts for years, not estimates. If this new method gives us a report that tells us there are 254 cranes estimated, plus or minus 62, that report is useless.

    http://perilloux.org