Sandhill and Whooping Cranes Ancient Voices by Paul A. Johnsgard PAPERBACK

Sandhill and Whooping CranesAncient Voices Over America's Wetlands\nAuthor(s): Paul A. Johnsgard\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: Bison Books\nISBN-13: 9780803234963, 978-0803234963\nSynopsis\nDriving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. \""I suspect,\"" he says, \""that the migrating cranes of a preice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation going on today along the Platte.\"" \nJohnsgard has spent nearly a half century observing cranes, from a yearly foray to Nebraska's Platte River valley to see the spring migration, to pilgrimages to the birds' wintering grounds in Arizona and nesting territory in Alaska. In this book he draws from his own extensive experience as well as the latest science to offer a richly detailed and deeply felt account of the ecology of sandhill and whooping cranes and the wetlands in .