Right: A whooping-crane fam- 

 ily group on their Texas win- 

 tering territory. This scene is 

 at Middle Pond on the Aran- 

 sas National Wildlife Refuge. 



Lawrence H. Walkinshato 



Left: Even the wildest of birds 

 become gentle and coopera- 

 tive when skillfully handled 

 in captivity. "Pete" and "Jo" 

 being fed special delicacies in 

 the original Aransas Refuge 

 enclosure. 



Right: Her dignity is a natural 

 heritage, and "Josephine," the 

 female of the captive whoop- 

 ing cranes, is completely un- 

 aware of her fame, or of the 

 hopes and prayers that have 

 gone her way. 



Below: A great deal of luck 

 was needed to get this aerial 

 photograph of five migrant 

 whooping cranes on a sandbar 

 in the Platte River in Ne- 

 braska. The date was April 19, 

 1947. 



Robert P. Allen 



