THE WHOOPING CRANE'S TRUMPET CALL 



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A living full-grown Whooping Crane stands 4 feet 3 

 inches high. Its name is due to its wonderfully clear, powerful 

 and trumpet-like call, which is uttered with the beak pointing 



N. Y. Zoological Park. 



WHOOPING CRANE. 



straight upward. When properly delivered, the crane's call 

 consists of two notes, an octave apart, one following the other 

 so closely that there is no interval, thus: "Quah-KEE-E- 

 E-oo!" I believe that a Crane's trumpet call will carry as 

 far as the roar of a lion. 



All our Cranes are strictly open-country birds, and for- 



