. Birds the world over, as shown in habitat groups in Chicago Natural History Museum. Birds. A merica n C ranes Manv of the "cranes" or "blue cranes" reported by country people are what the bird students call "great blue ; But cranes do occur in the Chicago area, or at least they did so formerly; now one species is on the verge of extinction and the other is rarely seen here. Our exhibit, a scene at Deep River, Indiana, shows the two species: the white birds are the nearly extinct whooping crane, with a mottled young of the year; the gray bird is a sandhill
. Birds the world over, as shown in habitat groups in Chicago Natural History Museum. Birds. A merica n C ranes Manv of the "cranes" or "blue cranes" reported by country people are what the bird students call "great blue ; But cranes do occur in the Chicago area, or at least they did so formerly; now one species is on the verge of extinction and the other is rarely seen here. Our exhibit, a scene at Deep River, Indiana, shows the two species: the white birds are the nearly extinct whooping crane, with a mottled young of the year; the gray bird is a sandhill crane. The whooping crane has been called one of the most stately and most striking of our North American birds. Its original breeding range was chiefly the central plains and prairies of the United States and Canada, country that now is largely settled. Origi- nally these cranes were abundant, but in 1876 E. W. Nelson had already noted a de- crease in their numbers in northeastern Illinois, and wrote "once an abundant mi- ; With the settling of the country the survival of such a large, striking bird, one that was good to eat, and that visited grainfields, became difficult. This species has decreased in numbers until now it is known only from the two dozen or so of individ- uals that winter on refuges in the Gulf of Mexico area. There are occasional recent records of birds on migration seen in Saskatchewan, but where they nest we do not know. Their foothold on existence is precarious, and extinction looms Exhibit in Chicigo lN, Hrsrory Muscun 26. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chicago Natural History Museum; Rand, Austin Loomer, 1905-1982; Blake, Emmet Reid, 1908-. [Chicago]
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