[Sca-cooks] Crane Cookery

[Patricia Dunham]

Sandhills USED to be endangered. They almost blinked out, the Greaters, in the 1940’s, getting down to around 1000 individuals. They are now back up to 100K! The lesser are in quite good shape with ca. 450K population. MUCH more on subspecies and territories at the Wiki page.

> On Oct 22, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Sam Wallace <guillaumedep at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Two subspecies of sandhill cranes are endangered, but I doubt if either
> makes it to Meridies (
> http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/wildlife-library/birds/sandhill-crane.aspx). I
> used to work for the game and fish department in NM. They are a managed
> species, but that doesn't imply endangered. It is legal to hunt them (
> http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/hunting/information-by-animal/migratory-bird/
> ).
> 
>> I don't know if they're endangered here or not, but we see a lot of them
> migrating through. Numbers have been increasing noticeably in my lifetime
> (yea).
>> 
>> Morgana, in Fairbanks, AK
> 
>>> Sandhills are an endangered species in Meridies.
>>> 
>>> Magnus
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