Whooping Crane Festival is located in Princeton Wisconsin.
A leisurely drive from Adeline’s House of Cool the annual Whooping Crane Festival is another late summer activity for guests who like to venture out.
Held on September 11th, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, the Whooping Crane and Nature festival is one-of-a-kind event families and festival goers and nature lovers do not want to miss.
The festival celebrates and supports the ongoing efforts to save the endangered Whooping crane from extinction.
There will be guest speakers, a silent auction, a children’s area, cranes, good food, and more. The festival will also host artisans and vendors selling nature-related items, unique handmade items, and much more.
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The Whooping Crane, an endangered species, has been recently reintroduced to Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin DNR, along with other members of the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), is working to restore an eastern migratory population of whooping cranes that migrates annually between its Wisconsin breeding grounds and its wintering habitat in the southern United States.
About the Whooping Crane
Whooping Cranes are very large, tall birds with long necks and long legs. The bill is stout and straight; the overall slender body widens to a plump “bustle” at the tail. In-flight the wings are broad and the neck is fully extended.
Adults are bright white birds with accents of red on the head. The legs, bill, and wingtips are black. Immatures are whitish below but mottled brownish-rusty above.
Whooping Cranes move at a stately pace, browsing and probing for food rather than hunting patiently and stealthily like a heron. They tend to occur in small flocks (or among much larger numbers of Sandhill Cranes) rather than singly.
Whooping Cranes breed in shallow, grassy wetlands interspersed with grasslands or scattered evergreens. During migration, they stop over on wide shallow river flats. They winter mainly in coastal marshes and estuaries. They sometimes forage at crop fields.
