Dear friends!
Yesterday we got a new information about a Red-crowned crane and a
White-naped crane from Bastak reserve.
The cranes we released into the wild on the last year.
Two birds were met neat to Birobidjan city (Jewish region, about 500
km Eastern from Khingansky reserve) in a village Voskresenovka.
The Red-crowned crane has got a ring 5C2, the egg from Cincinnati Zoo,
name Alim, male.
The White-naped crane - 5A4 from Birmingham Zoo, name Medeya, female.
Last year we released
the cranes into the wild and in July 2005 Dr. S.M. Smirensky saw a
group cranes (a
Red-crowned crane and two White-naped cranes) with
white colors rings near Muraviovka Park (that is 240 km western from
Khingansky reserve). We think he saw the 5C2, 5A4
and other our crane. Now 5C2 and 5A4 after wintering observed another
place.
The cranes went to people for helping because the White-naped crane
broke the bill and can not feed herself. People from the village give
some foods to cranes and called to Bastak reserve. Now we were taken
our cranes to the Station. The Red-crowned crane we will release again
in
the Khingansky reserve and the White-naped crane will treat the bill
and maybe autumn or the next spring releasing in the wild.
So, I think we have a lot returning releasing cranes after wintering
every year but we can see cranes but only rare cases as for example in
the
year: crane had trauma and went to people; other two cranes went to the
summer
camp on the calling them parents. In another cases to see releasing
cranes into the
wild very difficult and so difficult to read a number of a ring.
Please, pass the information about successful releasing them cranes
to Cincinnati Zoo and Birmingham Zoo so
I nave no them e-mail address.
Thank you very much for collaborations.
Sincerely you,
Rimma Andronova
THE 2006 KHINGANSKI STATION REINTRODUCTION REPORT
2007 red-crowned crane chicks from Woodland Park Zoo. The eggs were sexed to produce males.
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