North American Cranes

Children's Literature - Gisela Jernigan

This informative Carolrhoda Nature Watch Book combines many beautiful color photos with a fairly brief, factual text to compare and contrast the physical characteristics, diet, life cycles, habitats and migration patterns of America's Sandhill and Whooping cranes. Especially interesting chapters discuss how scientists helped the seriously endangered whooping cranes so that their population increased from 22 in 1941, to 356 in 1997. The role that Sandhill cranes played in helping the Whooping cranes establish new flocks is also described. An index and glossary are included.