{"id":107164,"date":"2014-10-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=614daf7464321f2394513d7ffef9e865"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:48:25","slug":"weve-got-a-whooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/weve-got-a-whooper\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve got a Whooper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey lookit! It’s a whooping crane! This was a pleasant surprise, definitely wasn’t expecting to come across any whooping cranes any time soon.<\/p>\n

She (yes she – her name is Latka and she was hatched on June 13, 2013) was hanging out with a pretty big sandhill flock (about 8oish).<\/p>\n

She was banded and luckily, with the big boy lens I could read the bands…which is why I know her life story now, which is kinda fun.<\/p>\n

If you’re not aware, whooping cranes are one of the most endangered birds in North America, with less than 400 of them in the wild.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen them a couple times on the Texas coast, so it was pretty cool to see Latka in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Respect these guys, guys! They’ve been way too close to extinction in the past (at one point, there were only 16 in the wild. Shit. Unacceptable.)<\/p>\n

Reintroduction and captive breeding have really helped these birds out and their numbers are up, but they definitely still need our help.<\/p>\n

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Whooping Crane with Sandhill Cranes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whooping Crane with Sandhill Cranes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whooping Crane with Sandhill Cranes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey lookit! It’s a whooping crane! This was a pleasant surprise, definitely wasn’t expecting to come across any whooping cranes any time soon. She (yes she – her name is Latka and she was hatched on June 13, 2013) was hanging out with a pretty big sandhill flock (about 8oish). She was banded and luckily, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2148383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2369,2425,1184,4325,5748],"class_list":["post-107164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-hooping-crane","tag-jill-wussow","tag-sandhill-crane","tag-whooping-crane","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}