Are you my Mummy?
Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
Fourteen young cranes are scheduled to take off Friday from the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, barring inclement weather. Ultralight pilots there have been leading the impressionable birds who think the ultralights are their Mother on longer and longer training flights. They'll head to wildlife refuges on Florida's Gulf Coast, passing through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. The project is part of the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership's efforts to reintroduce a migratory flock of whooping cranes to the eastern United States. This will be the partnership's eighth ultralight-led migration.