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The Whooping Crane (Grus americana) is a very large crane. This is the tallest North American bird.

Adults are white; they have a red crown and a long dark pointed bill. They have long dark legs which trail behind in flight and a long neck that is kept straight in flight. Black wing tips can be seen in flight. Immature birds are pale brown.

Their breeding habitat is muskeg; the only known nesting location is Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada and surrounding area. They nest in on the ground, usually on a raised area in a marsh. The female lays 1 to 3 eggs. Both parents feed the young. Usually no more than one young bird survives in a season.

The only known wintering location for these birds is Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas which was created to preserve their wintering grounds.

These birds forage while walking in shallow water or in fields, sometimes probing with their bills. They are omnivorousOmnivores are organisms that consume on both plants and animals. At one time the word omnivore was used to designate the pig family. Examples: Mammals many pigs many bears many primates (including humans) domestic dogs some rodents, including mice, rats,, eating insects, aquatic plants and animals, crustaceans, seeds and berries.

This bird's name comes from their whooping call. The Whooping Crane is endangeredAn endangered species is a species whose population is so small that it is in danger of becoming extinct. Many countries have laws offering special protection to these species (forbidding hunting, banning their habitats from development, etc. to prevent t mainly as a result of habitat loss. At one time, the range for these birds extended throughout midwestern North America. In 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, the wild population consisted of 21 birds. A number of attempts have been made to establish other breeding populations in the wild, some involving Sandhill CraneSandhill Crane Scientific Classification : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Gruiformes : Gruidae Grus canadensis Binomial name Grus canadensis Linnaeus, 1758) The Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis is a large crane. Adults are grey; they have a red crown, white cs (which failed); yearly releases of isolation-reared birds as a non-migrating population in Florida has resulted at least in some few first successful breading attempts; the isolation rearing of other young Whooping cranes and their training to follow ultralight airplanes is also successful so far: they do learn the migration from Wisconsin to Florida and come back on their own the following spring.