North American Crane Working Group
Date of this Version
2008
Document Type
Article
Citation
Stehn, T.V., and T.E. Taylor. Aerial census techniques for whooping cranes on the Texas coast. In: Folk, MJ and SA Nesbitt, eds. 2008. Proceedings of the Tenth North American Crane Workshop, Feb. 7-10, 2006, Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, Mexico: North American Crane Working Group. pp. 146-151.
Abstract
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, using aerial surveys, regularly monitors the whooping crane (Grus americana) population wintering along the Texas coast. These regular census flights began in 1950 and have produced a long-term data set on the growth of a small population of endangered birds. This paper describes the specific methodology used by the authors during census flights.
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Comments
Reproduced by permission of the North American Crane Working Group.