{"id":3585,"date":"2010-10-17T09:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T13:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:48:05","slug":"flight-of-a-whopping-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/flight-of-a-whopping-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight of a Whooping Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whooping cranes have been known to fly for <strong>10 hours<\/strong>, covering distances of up to <strong>750 kilometers<\/strong>! They use a special combination of spiraling and gliding that keeps their energy usage to a minimum. If you&#8217;ve never seen a whooping crane in flight, look up at the sky and keep your eyes peeled because they are making a come back. Although these birds are endangered, their populations have been climbing since 1967 in part because of conservation efforts in Canadian and America. If you don\u2019t have time to sit watching the skies all day, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/video\/conservation\/whooping-crane-video_e6271edbd.html\" target=\"_self\">this video<\/a> showing these beautiful birds in flight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11861\" title=\"whooping_crane_flying\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying_whooping_crane.jpg\" alt=\"whooping crane flying\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying_whooping_crane.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying_whooping_crane-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hww.ca\/hww2.asp?id=79\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hww.ca\/hww2.asp?id=79<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2890 align=\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2010_biodiversity_logo_convention\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png\" alt=\"biodiversity logo convention 2010\" width=\"580\" height=\"95\" align=\"aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png 920w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-768x125.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-696x113.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/strong><strong> has teamed up with <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United Nations Convention<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Biological Diversity<\/span><\/strong><strong> to bring you a daily dose of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1223\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">biodiversity basics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whooping Cranes can fly for many hours and over long distances without needing to stop for a break. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665,13,409,931],"tags":[62,225,226,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-3585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allbirds","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"category-all","11":"tag-birds","12":"tag-crane","13":"tag-flight","14":"tag-united-nations"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}