New Whooping Crane Breeding Facility Opens at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

One of six breeding pairs of whooping cranes that arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. With less than 900 birds on the planet, the six mated-pairs will be the founding members of SCBI’s whooping crane research and breeding program. The chicks that the pairs hatch will be candidates for reintroduction to the wild.

Photo: Skip Brown/Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute