Sandhill and Whooping Cranes : Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands /

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"Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, Is like driving backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation goi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bird watching > North America.
Cranes (Birds) > Conservation > North America.
Wetland birds > North America.
Whooping crane.
Sandhill crane.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lesser sandhill cranes : Pleistocene relicts from the tundra
  • The other sandhills : from sedge bogs to palm savannas
  • The whooping crane : still surviving despite the odds
  • Our cranes and their fragile future
  • Appendix : Crane viewing sites in the United States and Canada.

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