Hope Takes Wing Project: Whooping Cranes once numbered only 15 individual birds. Today, with the help of ultralight aricraft, the species is returning to a portion of North America where the birds have not lived in over 100 years. Imprinted cranes are conditioned to follow aircraft and are then guided over 1,200 miles from central Wisconsin to the gulf coast of Florida. Join Operation Migration pilots in the air for a bird's-eye-view of this historic migration. |