International Crane Foundation

One of the premier goals of the ICF is to create a "species bank" where "cranes could be kept safely," says Marianne Wellington, Assistant Curator of Birds, "until the factors causing their decline, such as loss of habitat and indiscriminate hunting, are corrected." The Foundation tackled the extensive task of captive breeding of cranes, of which little experience or knowledge had previously existed, resulting in a succession of firsts. Hooded and Siberian Cranes produced young for the first time in captivity, and young Brolgas and Bl ...

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Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back. Most have elaborate and noisy courting displays or "dances". They mate for life. Some species of cranes migrate over long distances, while cranes in warm climates do not migrate at all. Cranes are gregarious, forming large flocks where their numbers are sufficient. E ...

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The cranes' beauty and their spectacular mating dances have made them highly symbolic birds from earliest times. Crane myth is as widely separated and universal as the Aegean, South Arabia, Japan and Amerindian North America. In northern Hokkaido, the women of the Ainu people, whose culture is more Siberian than Japanese, performed a crane dance that was captured in 1908 in a photograph by Arnold Genthe. In Korea, a crane dance has been performed in the courtyard of the Tongd ...

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Brolgas are well known for their intricate mating dances. The dance begins with a bird picking up some grass and tossing it into the air, catching it in its bill, then progresses to jumping a metre into the air with outstretched wings, then stretching, bowing, walking, calling, and bobbing its head. Sometimes just one Brolga dances for its mate; often they dance in pairs; and sometimes a whole group of about a dozen dance together, lining u ...

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As of the census of 2000, there are 10,711 people, 4,467 households, and 2,733 families residing in the city. The population density is 783.2/km² (2,030.2/mi²). There are 4,718 housing units at an average density of 345.0 persons/km² (894.3 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.12% White, 0.51% African American, 0.77% Native American, 0.52% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.41% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. 1.57% of ...

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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.7 km² (5.3 mi²). None of the area is covered with water. Baraboo is home to the Baraboo Syncline, a doubly-plunging, asymmetric syncline in Proterozoic-aged Baraboo Quartzite. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, most notably Charles R. Van Hise used the syncline to prove that small-scale deformational structures in isolated outcrops reflect larger regional structures and established top-facing to occur inside elaborately deformed strata. These two ...

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The Foundation's 225 acre (911,000 m²) Baraboo site consists of research labs, education facilities, 60 large pens, as well as native natural tallgrass prairie, oak savanna, and wetlands. Fortunately open to the public, the ICF's naturalist-led and self-guided tours offer a rare opportunity to see in one place breeding pairs of most of the world's crane species, all living in a natural and safe environmen ...

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