ALDA — Training for Whooper Watch volunteers will start at 5 p.m. Friday at the Nebraska Nature and Visitor Center at the Interstate 80 exit at Alda.
Offered by the center in partnership with The Crane Trust, the free training is for volunteers who will search for and observe endangered whooping cranes as they pass through Nebraska.
Around mid-April, small families of whooping cranes stop along the Platte River and in south-central Nebraska’s Rainwater Basin to feed and rest on their way from Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas to nesting grounds at Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta and adjacent Northwest Territories.
Whooping crane numbers were down to 15 in the 1940s. Now, the lone wild flock stands at an estimated 280 birds.
For more information, contact Dan Glomski at the nature center, 308-382-1820, or Karine Gil at the Crane Trust, 308-384-4633.
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