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Description for Whooping Crane
Num Pages: 228 pages, col. Illustrations, col. map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KBC; AJC; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 279 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1996.
Approximately 250 wild whooping cranes nest in northern Canada and winter in south Texas, flying 2,500 miles annually between these two distinct havens: the coastal marshes of the Gulf of Mexico and the boreal wilderness on the border of Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Through twists of good fortune, each of these terminal migratory places is protected from human encroachment—by a U.S. national wildlife refuge on the one hand and a Canadian national park on the other. This last remaining natural flock of the species, its numbers small but slowly increasing, has thus become known by the names of its ... Read more
Approximately 250 wild whooping cranes nest in northern Canada and winter in south Texas, flying 2,500 miles annually between these two distinct havens: the coastal marshes of the Gulf of Mexico and the boreal wilderness on the border of Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Through twists of good fortune, each of these terminal migratory places is protected from human encroachment—by a U.S. national wildlife refuge on the one hand and a Canadian national park on the other. This last remaining natural flock of the species, its numbers small but slowly increasing, has thus become known by the names of its ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781603442091
SKU
V9781603442091
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
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