Whooping Crane Cam gives birds-eye view of tallest, rarest birds in North America

SAN ANTONIO – Get a birds-eye view of the tallest and rarest birds in North America with the San Antonio Zoo Whooping Crane Cam.

The San Antonio Zoo has been seeking to lend a hand this severely endangered species come “Back From the Brink” for the reason that Seventies.

“Back from the Brink” is the title of the whooping crane showcase on the zoo, which is now to be had to observe on our 24-hour livestream.

The video circulation is a part of a suite of 24-hour are living streams that still come with perspectives of different zoo enclosures, the San Antonio International Airport, the Bexar County Courthouse, the town skyline and extra.

Whooping cranes had been documented to are living greater than 30 years in the wild, in line with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Though the whooping crane inhabitants has been often expanding, the birds are nonetheless confronted with habitat loss and overhunting.

When the chicken used to be indexed below the Endangered Species Act in 1967, handiest 50 of the birds existed, USFWS officers mentioned. Of the ones, 43 had been documented at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and 7 had been in captivity.

January 2023 estimates indicated 536 whooping cranes had been observed on the natural world shelter alongside the Texas coast.

Whooping cranes make an annual 2,500-mile migration from Alberta’s Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada to the coastal marshes of Texas. The migration can take as much as 50 days.

It is against the law to disturb the federally secure whooping cranes, and whilst they generally tend to hunt out wetlands and agricultural fields, in addition they move thru massive city facilities like Dallas-Fort Worth, Waco and Austin on their method to the Texas coast.

The efforts of the San Antonio Zoo to deliver again the whooping crane from extinction had been featured in “Escape from Extinction,” a conservation documentary narrated via Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren.

When you aren’t playing gazing the Crane Cam you’ll be able to record any possible sightings of the uncommon birds to TPWD’s Whooper Watch – a citizen-science-based reporting device that tracks whooping crane migration and wintering places right through Texas.