Abstracts from Proceedings of the Twelfth North American Crane Workshop, 13-16 March 2011, Grand Island, Nebraska, USA. (2014)

ASSESSMENT OF THE EASTERN POPULATION GREATER SANDHILL CRANE FALL SURVEY, 1979-2009 Courtney Amundson, Douglas Johnson, Sean Kelly, and Tom Cooper 80 FACTORS INFLUENCING GREATER SANDHILL CRANE NEST SUCCESS IN NEVADA .Chad August, James Sedinger, and Chris Nicolai 80 INFLUENCE OF FOOD AND PREDATOR ABUNDANCE ON STRESS LEVELS OF SANDHILL CRANES WINTERING IN NORTHERN MEXICO Ingrid Barcelo and Felipe Chavez-Ramirez 81 A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION FOR CROP DAMAGE BY CRANES AND OTHER BIRD SPECIES TO PLANTED SEED Jeb Barzen and Anne Lacy 81 MODELLING THE EFFECT OF LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON SANDHILL CRANE DISTRIBUTION IN THE CENTRAL PLATTE RIVER VALLEY OF NEBRASKA Todd J. Buckley, Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, Larkin A. Powell, and Andrew J. Tyre 82 DIFFERENCES IN HABITAT USE BY WHOOPING CRANES OBSERVED IN NATURAL AND URBAN AREAS OF TEXAS DURING WINTER 2009-2010 . Mery Casady and Letitia M. Reichart 82 MEASURING FECAL CORTICOSTERONE IN WILD WHOOPING CRANES Mery Casady, Letitia M. Reichart, Andrew K. Birnie, and Jeffrey A. French 83 POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS ON WHOOPING CRANES . Felipe Chavez-Ramirez 83 WHOOPING CRANE MIGRATION THROUGH THE GREAT PLAINS: CONSERVATION ISSUES .Felipe Chavez-Ramirez 84 VIDEO SURVEILLANCE OF NESTING WHOOPING CRANES . Timothy Dellinger, Martin Folk, Stephen Baynes, and Kathleen Chappell 84 COPULATION OF NON-MIGRATORY WHOOPING CRANES IN FLORIDA Timothy Dellinger, Martin Folk, Stephen Baynes, Kathleen Chappell, and Marilyn Spalding 85 USING ECOREGIONS TO QUANTIFY CHANGES IN BREEDING SANDHILL CRANE DENSITIES FOR WISCONSIN .Forrest East and Anne Lacy 85 STATUS OF THE FLORIDA RESIDENT FLOCK OF WHOOPING CRANES . Martin Folk, Timothy Dellinger, Stephen Baynes, Kathleen Chappell, and Marilyn Spalding 86 HISTORICAL BREEDING, STOPOVER AND WINTERING DISTRIBUTIONS OF A WHOOPING CRANE FAMILY Karine Gil-Weir, Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, Brian W. Johns, Lea Craig-Moore, Thomas Stehn, and Robin Silva 87 GIS DATABASE DESIGN FOR ANALYSIS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN CRANE RESEARCH . Amy Richert Goodall, Kerryn Morrison, and Nathan Stinnette 88 THE EFFECT OF WEATHER ON PRODUCTIVITY IN A GREATER SANDHILL CRANE POPULATION IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN Andrew Gossens, Jeb Barzen, and Matt Hayes 88 EFFECTS OF WIND FARMS ON WINTERING SANDHILL CRANES IN THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS OF TEXAS Laura Navarrete, Kerry L. Griffis-Kyle, and David Haukos 98 TERRITORY HISTORIES OF FLORIDA SANDHILL CRANES: 1980-2006 .Stephen Nesbitt and Stephen Schwikert 98 UPDATED EASTERN SANDHILL CRANE RANGE MAPS Kristin Norris and Anne Lacy 99 HEMATOLOGY AND SERUM CHEMISTRY RESULTS FROM EXPERIMENTAL EXPOSURE OF SANDHILL CRANES TO WEST NILE VIRUS . Glenn Olsen 99 PHOTOPERIOD AND NESTING PHENOLOGY OF WHOOPING CRANES AT TWO CAPTIVE FACILITIES . Glenn Olsen 100 PROTOCOL AND RESULTS FROM THE FIRST SEASON OF CAPTIVE REARING WHOOPING CRANES FOR A NON-MIGRATORY RELEASE IN LOUISIANA Glenn H. Olsen and Jane N. Chandler 100 COMPARISON OF BEHAVIORS OF CRANE CHICKS THAT WERE PARENT-REARED AND REARED BY COSTUMED HUMANS Glenn Olsen, Lani Matthews, and Sarah Converse 101 MIGRATION ECOLOGY OF THE ARANSAS-WOOD BUFFALO POPULATION OF WHOOPING CRANES Aaron Pearse, Dave Brandt, Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, and Walter Wehtje 101 ASSESSING BREEDING WHOOPING CRANE HABITAT USE TO CHOOSE ALTERNATIVE RELEASE SITES IN WISCONSIN . Nathan Schmidt, Jeb Barzen, Anne Lacy, and J. Michael Engels 102 WHOOPING CRANES IN FLORIDA: WEATHER OR NOT CLIMATE MATTERS? . Marilyn Spalding, Martin Folk, and Stephen Nesbitt 102 CHANGING RAINFALL PATTERNS VERSUS WETLAND ATTRITION: WHAT AFFECTS LARGE WATERBIRD BREEDING SUCCESS MORE IN THE GANGETIC FLOODPLAINS, INDIA? . K. S. Gopi Sundar 103 CRANES AND CLIMATE CHANGE: A FACT SHEET . Zsolt Végvári and Miriam Hansbauer 103 MOVEMENTS AND HABITAT USE OF THE BROLGA IN SOUTH WEST VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA . Inka Veltheim, Simon Cook, Richard Hill, and Michael McCarthy 104 AERIAL CENSUS OF BROLGA NEST SITES IN SOUTH WEST VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA . Inka Veltheim, Mark Venosta, Richard Hill, Simon Cook, and Michael McCarthy 104 MICROBIAL WATER QUALITY EFFECTS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS IN THE PLATTE RIVER, NEBRASKA 2009-2010 Jason Vogel and Matt Moser 105 AN UPDATE ON THE DIRECT AUTUMN RELEASE OF WHOOPING CRANES INTO THE EASTERN MIGRATORY POPULATION . Marianne Wellington and Richard P. Urbanek 10