Whooping cranes are the rarest of all the cranes. According to the International Crane Foundation (ICF), based in Wisconsin, there are currently just over 840 birds in North America (in the wild and human care). The good news is that those numbers are up from only 21 birds in 1944. The primary reason for their…
Learn More: visit Birdlife International The Wattled curassow’s range consists of Upper Amazonia from southeastern Columbia south along the eastern foothills of the Andes through Ecuador and Peru to northeastern Bolivia. They inhabit somewhat dry areas in the tropical Amazonian forest, staying away from swampy places. Curassows, in general, are about the size of a wild turkey,…
Their diet consists of primarily fruit and greens in the wild. Their captive diet consists of various chopped fruits, greens, seeds and grains. Northern helmeted curassows are a very striking bird in appearance; they have a distinctive large, fig-shaped, pale slate-blue casque on their head. Their feathers are primarily a sooty blue-black color with white…
The sandhill crane has a wide distribution in North America and the sight and sound of migrating crane flocks is familiar in many parts of the United States. There are two non-migratory sub-species of sandhill crane found in Florida and in Mississippi. The Mississippi Sandhill Crane is critically endangered and it has lost much of…
Saving the small species too The Florida grasshopper sparrow was first described in 1902. At the time, a relatively widespread population of the birds lived in south-central Florida. By 2017, only about 15 pairs remained in the wild, mainly because their native prairie grassland had been converted to cattle pastures, sod production and other agricultural…
Cassowaries are found in Northern Australia, New Guinea, Ceram and Aru Island. Their habitat is dense forests. They can weigh up to 165 lbs. and grow to be 5 ft tall at top of the head. Their diet consists mainly of fruit of forest trees, some small vertebrates and land snails. There are three species…
One of the largest of the cranes, the wattled crane is pale grey with a long white neck, black cap, bare red facial skin, and white feathered pendant wattles on the throat. Elongated inner secondary wing feathers look like a long tail. The wattled crane is a threatened species, with only several thousand pairs left….
Male Blue-billed curassows have a slightly swollen cere (a waxy fleshy covering at the base of the upper beak) and wattles that are a bright blue. The plumage is black with a white abdomen. The female also has a blue cere, which is not as swollen in appearance, and her plumage is black with narrow…
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