DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — The Festival of the Cranes has come to a close for the year, but the sights and sounds of thousands of migrating birds are still filling the air at the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge.
“It, you know, warms my heart to see people coming together to celebrate the birds that we have here. Something to be proud of here,” Wheeler Wildlife Refuge park ranger David Young said. “It’s exciting to see people coming together to celebrate these wonderful wildlife resources we have here in Alabama.”
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More than 14,000 sandhill cranes, along with several endangered whooping cranes, are spending the winter there. This area is one of the few places in America where the whooping crane can be seen.
“It’s the biggest bird in North America,” President and CEO of the International Crane Foundation Rich Beilfuss said. “They’re very tall white birds, little black wingtips, enormous birds.”…