{"id":236638,"date":"2021-10-11T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=236638"},"modified":"2021-10-11T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T00:13:05","slug":"whooping-cranes-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=236638","title":{"rendered":"Whooping Cranes migrating through ND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota wildlife officials are urging people to keep an eye out for migrating whooping cranes. The North Dakota Fish and Game Department says a portion of a population of 500 cranes are crossing the state on a 2,500-mile migration from nesting grounds at Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada to wintering grounds in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WhoopingSandhillCompare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-236669\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WhoopingSandhillCompare.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WhoopingSandhillCompare.png 445w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WhoopingSandhillCompare-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/WhoopingSandhillCompare-260x175.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a>The agency says anyone who spots cranes should leave them alone but record the date, time, location and the birds&#8217; activities and report the sighting to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The reports help biologists locate crane habitat areas, monitor marked birds and determine population numbers and migration routes.<\/p>\n<p>Photo to right to give\u00a0 comparison of Whooping Crane to the\u00a0 common Sandhill Crane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota wildlife officials are urging people to keep an eye out for migrating whooping cranes. The North Dakota Fish and Game Department says a portion of a population of 500 cranes are crossing the state on a 2,500-mile migration from nesting grounds at Wood Buffalo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236672,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236638\/revisions\/236672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}