The Lobstick Family of Whooping Cranes

[Donna]

The celebrities of the Whooping Crane world have to be the Lobstick family, named for the Lobstick marshes where they nest in Canada. The Lobstick male, at 33, is the oldest Whooping Crane in the wild whose age we know for certain. And Tom Stehn of the US Fish and Wildlife Service tells us the Lobsticks have raised 17 chicks in 29 years. Still, increasing the population of Whooping Cranes is slow going. Healthy wetlands in Canada and in Texas – where the cranes winter – are essential to the future of the endangered Whooping Crane.

http://www.birdnote.org/birdnote.cfm?id=2076 pic of family here.