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Cranes
Harsh on the marsh
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2005
Craning glory: Demoiselle cranes find sanctuary in Rajasthan village
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2003
Kheechan village on the edge of the Thar desert lies on the migration route of demoiselle cranes travelling from their breeding grounds in Eurasia to bask in India's milder winter. In late September, the first flocks take to the skies from the plateaus, steppes and wetlands of Mongolia and the Caucasus region. They cover the 5,000-kilometre journey in about two weeks, flying across many international frontiers and soaring over the Himalaya.
For a safer landing?
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1996
A UNIQUE solution for the conservation of the greatly-endangered whooping crane (Grus americana) is currently under trial in the us. Kent Clegg, a biologist and rancher, belonging to south-eastern Idaho hit upon the idea of teaching cranes to migrate to areas where their lot would not be threatened, by following an ultralight aircraft (ul). The north-western territories of Canada, home to the only self-sustaining population of whooping crane in winter,
borders the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, one of the busiest in the world. Much of the cargo passing through the area
To safer skies
Issue Date: Dec 15, 1996
COME winter and the debate over saving the Siberian crane intensifies. Even as the Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is preparing to welcome these rare birds, international crane experts are planning to build a new home for the cranes in islands on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. The Siberian crane is one of the most endangered species. Today, there is only one breeding pair and several non-breeding cranes in the basin of the Kunovat river, Siberia.
A historic flight
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1996
BIRD-LOVERS will after all have a chance
to gather more information about the
highly, endangered wild Siberian
cranes. After dragging its feet over the
rnatter, the ministry of environment
and forests (MEF) recently permitted
conservationists to install a satellite transmitter on the back of one of the
cranes spending their winter at the
Keoladeo Ghana National Park near
Siberian setback
Issue Date: Aug 15, 1994
The much publicised multi-nation effort to save the near-extinct Siberian Crane received a setback with the death of one of the pair of first-ever artificially hatched and bred crane chicks. The chicks, named Little and Bugle, had been brought from Russia to the Keoladeo sanctuary in the Bharatpur, Rajasthan. Little died on July 9 following an attack by a bird of another species.
In poor health
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1994
Flight to extinction
Issue Date: Feb 28, 1994
THE FAILURE of the Siberian cranes to pay their annual migratory visit, in mid-November, to the Keoladeo Ghana National Park in Bharatpur is fuelling anxiety that these birds may be on the brink of extinction.
The number of Siberian cranes coming to Bharatpur has declined steadily since 1969. In 1964, they had totalled more than 200. In 1982, there were 38 cranes and by 1990, the figure had gone down to 10. Last year, just five birds arrived.
The case of the vanishing Siberian cranes
@ Issue Date: Feb 15, 1993
ILL-CONCEIVED human intervention can all but destroy a wild animal's habitat and this has been amply illustrated at the Keoladeo National Park (KNP) in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. Successive years of worsening food and water scarcity are blamed for the lessening number of rare Siberian white cranes visiting the park.
