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Thesis: an understanding of the Whooping Crane characters, the effects of our world, and it’s out look for the future is necessary to raise awareness for Plant Earth.
I. The Whooping crane is named after their trumpet like call (Ngal, 232). There are many other interesting fact about the Whooping crane. Learning about the Whooping crane is inessential for the future of their species.
II. Description
A. What the Whooping Crane looks like
1. Size
a. Very long neck
b. Weights 9-17 pounds
c. Tallest bird in North America
d. Wingspan of 7.5 feet
2. Color
a. Whit head and body
b. Chicks are cinnamon
c. Egg are tan to green
B. How the Whooping Crane reproduces
1. Mating
a. Makes a vibrant trumpet noise
b. Once together always together
c. Dance to mate
2. Growing up
a. Eggs laid in April to mid May
b. Thirty days till egg hatch
C. Where the Whooping Crane lives
1. Winter
a. Aransas National Wildlife refuges
b. Very long migration
2. Summer
a. Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada
b. Were found living during the Ice Age
D. What the Whooping Crane needs to survive
1. Food
a. Crabs
b. Crayfish
c. Frogs
d. Fish
e. Rodents
f. Insects
g. Berries
h. Small birds
2. Habitat
a. Lives in water
b. Uses Plant Materials for nest
III. Why it is endangered
A. Human disturbance’s
1. Hunting
a. Stealing eggs
b. Over hunted
c. Hunted for sport
2. Farming
a. Converted marshland to farmland
b. Destroyed crops so killed
B. Natural Causes
1. Natural disasters
a. Hurricane hit Wildlife conservation
b. Flooding nest kill young
2. Population issues
a. Always low population
b. Only one thousand four hundred inhabited North America
3. Biological tendencies
a. Very noisy sound
b. Short time to breed
c. Two eggs one survives
IV. Future
A. Protection
1. Reservist
a. Reserved wet lands
b. Reserves in Texas, United States
c. Also in Alberta, Canada
2. Programs
a. First was in nineteen sixty-seven
b. Today there is to recovery programs
B. Research
1. What was done
a. Gave one egg to sand hills
b. Successful Foster parents
c. Raised egg in captivity
2. What being done
a. Breeding program in Maryland, Wisconsin and Alberta, Canada
b. Now three hundred seventy now exists