Injured whooping crane recovering at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
...ooping cranes used in release programs such as the ultralight migration program and non-migratory release projec...n central Florida. All of the whoopers used in the ultralight migration are raised at Patuxent and given their initial training there. The other facilities in the...Ultralight plane migrating with monarch butterflies to land in Washington
...storic transcontinental flight, a crew piloting an ultralight plane is following and filming the annual migratio...declared "an endangered migratory phenomenon." The ultralight plane left Canada in late August, along with the monarchs, and will arrive at the butterflies' Mexic...