1. Ten years ago, an effort to return a certain bird to its original numbers in eastern North America was started. What is the name of the bird that is hoped to be saved?
2. What did workers in Wisconsin do to help the birds (paragraph two – read it carefully)?
3. How close is Operation Migration to its goal (paragraph three)?
4. In paragraph number six, why do people wear crane costumes?
5. What is the “ultralight” mentioned in paragraph six and in the caption next to the picture?
6. What four groups are included in the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership?
7. According to paragraph eight, whooping cranes are America’s tallest bird and were close to what in 1941?
8. What are at least three challenges that the group has faced?
a.
b.
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9. According to paragraph ten, what are four physical attributes of a whooping crane?
10. According to paragraph eleven, how long is the migration route?
11. Where does the other migrating population of whooping cranes nest? Where do they winter
(paragraph twelve)?
12. Altogether about how many birds live in the wild?
13. What has the International Crane Foundation started building on in response to Operation Migration’s work?
14. In paragraph sixteen, what has garnered so much attention from this project?