From: MKIRKALDY@aol.com
Reply-To: MKIRKALDY@aol.com
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: sad news re: whooping crane
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:12:35 EST
In a message dated Mon, 27 Nov 2000 9:07:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
Kimba4evr@aol.com writes:
> I recall someone posting an article 2-3 weeks ago
> regarding the migration of a flock of endangered
> whooping cranes following a small plane to Florida.
> I regret to inform the group that the local news here
> in Jacksonville, Fl reported on Wednesday that 2 of
> the juvenile males were found shot to death in a corn
> field.
While the migration story was about sandhill cranes, the above news is
truly
deplorable. Please see the following news items for more details:
http://www.operationmigration.org/news.html#article8
and
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ao/20001121/cr/rare_whooping_cranes_shot_dead_in_
fla__1.html
Mary
mkirkaldy@aol.com