What do whooping cranes sound like

Skip to content. Explore Taxonomy. Surprise Me. Previous Hooded Crane. Next Black-necked Crane. Richard P. Urbanek and James C. Explain your thinking. The unison call is made by pair-bonded cranes. It gets its name because both the male and female call in unison with each other. This call is often used in the elaborate courtship dance rituals of crane pairs in spring.

This loud call is also the way that a crane pair defends their territory. The unison call means Stay Away! They often circle and soar in large groups. Great Egrets are common wetland birds. Their long legs extend beyond the body in flight, but the long neck is usually tucked in flight. Color is gray, with slightly darker wingtips. They can be found in large flocks. Like Whooping Cranes, Snow Geese are white with black wingtips, but their legs do not extend beyond the body during flight.

Their beak is short. They are often found in large flocks. American White Ibis have long necks and legs that are extended in flight, but they have a long, curved bill. The wings have only a small patch of black on the wingtips and reach only 3 feet in wingspan. Wood Storks have long necks and legs that are extended in flight; however, the black on the wings extends all the way to the body. Black may also be visible on the neck and the tail. They flap slowly, glide, and soar.

To identify the birds, click on each photo to enlarge. Have you figured out how to identify a whooper? Test your knowledge! Keep flying. There's some food. This is my territory! We belong together and this is our territory.

Wessling visited the Operation Migration staff in August to work with them and the cranes. As you might expect, the cranes learned much faster when trained with "Crane-glish. Those six calls would be played through hand-held players concealed on people who fed the cranes, and from the crane puppets to "talk" to the cranes.

They Photo Operation Migration were played from a CD through big megaphones on the ultralight to talk to the cranes in the air. Wessling's research was valuable. We can ask the cranes to follow either the airplane, or caretaker 1 or 2, or whomever is calling them," said Dr. The Power of Acoustic Communication Once some cranes were lured away during training by a pair of wild Sandhill Cranes.