A Great White Bird

Duration: 50

Creator: U.S. DEPT OF THE INTERIOR

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: This film is about the whooping crane. This bird was never numerous but man's ignorance and loss of habitat reduced the population to 18 birds by 1938. This film illustrates efforts to learn more about the bird's habits. Efforts to save the birds are discussed. Includes a controversial method involving having sand hill cranes hatch and raise young whooping cranes. A good film about whooping cranes and what is being done to help them., Documents the efforts that have been made to save the whooping crane from extinction.

Complete Record: This film is about the whooping crane. This bird was never numerous but man's ignorance and loss of habitat reduced the population to 18 birds by 1938. This film illustrates efforts to learn more about the bird's habits. Efforts to save the birds are discussed. Includes a controversial method involving having sand hill cranes hatch and raise young whooping cranes. A good film about whooping cranes and what is being done to help them., Documents the efforts that have been made to save the whooping crane from extinction. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.