Wild Bird Rescue, Inc., serves twelve Texas counties by receiving birds from Texas Parks and Wildlife, Animal Control, Humane Societies, Police Departments, Sheriff's Departments, area businesses, and concerned individuals. We have received over 8,500 birds since the year 2001. We rescue wild birds, rehabilitate them, and then release them back into the wild.



Monday, January 3, 2011

Whooping Crane

One of our Game Wardens came by the Rescue Center last week. He wanted to let us know of a flock of Sandhill Cranes with a Whooping Crane amoung them. There is a plowed field of maize north of Electra where the cranes come in every day to feed and he saw the Whooper there. I put the word out to our rehabbers, board members and volunteers and the quest to see the most endangered spieces of bird in North America began. Terry and her mom, June, saw him; Elizabeth, Penny and Lila saw him. The day we went my wife saw him, but he walked down the other side of the ridge before I could get my binonculars up.

My quest for the Whooper is not over. I will go back and try again!

Even though I did not get to see the Whooper, watching approximately 20,000 Sandhill Cranes in one place is a sight well worth the drive. WOW!
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