When experts with the International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin heard that a whooping crane needed rescuing in Wilmette, they loaded their “crane costume” and a bunch of grapes into a car and spe…
A whooping crane got lost and wound up in a Wilmette backyard, and someone notified International Crane Foundation representatives, who drove down from Wisconsin to rescue it.
“We’ve had birds that go off track,” said Anne Lacy, director of eastern flyway programs North America with the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Lacy said colored bands on the crane’s legs allowed the ICF to identify it as “Animal,” a bird that had been born in captivity in Wisconsin about a year ago and named after a Muppets character. She said the bird is officially known as 16-23, meaning she was the 16th egg that hatched at ICF in 2023. The bird weighs between eight and nine pounds and is about 5 feet tall.
“It’s not so much to look like a crane as it is to hide the human form,” Lacy said of the white, bulky costume. She said the costume has a helmet and visor so the bird can’t see any human face, wings with black tips, black boots and, on one arm, there’s a realistic-looking whooping crane puppet head.
The woman in the costume was able to get close enough to Animal to offer her one of her favorite treats, a green grape, and the bird was bundled up, taken back to Wisconsin and released.
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