Christy Yuncker Photo Journal - Alaska Sandhill Cranes Dancing

Sandhill Crane Festivals

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Latest Galleries

   • 2015.6 - Run, Flap & Catch Air
   • 2016.1- Millie & Roy - 21^st year
   • 2016.2 - Hatch failed

   • 1 - Cranes return - 21^st year
   • 2 - Hatch failed
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   • 1 - Reclaiming the Homestead
   • 2 - Incubation Month
   • 3 - Fitness and Foraging
   • 4 - Dodging dangers
   • 5 - Chasing the fox
   • 6 - Run, Flap & Catch Air

   • 1 - Arrival
   • 2 - First week
   • 3 - Incubation
   • 4 - Roy's ice dancing
   • 5 - Pi hatches
   • 6 - Pi dances
   • 7 - Dodging Danger
   • 8 - Dragonflies
   • 9 - Fitness for flight
   • 10 - Swim with Dad
   • 11 - Dance and fly
   • 12 - August flight school
   • 13 - Foraging and intruders
   • 14 - Pi explores his world
   • 15- -Time to migrate

Roy and Millie dancing

   • Roy's and Millie's minuet
   • Roy's tour jete with Barbaro
   • Dancing after death of a colt
   • Ice dance after migration

Colts of Millie and Roy

   • Year-by-year summary
   • 2015 - Arrow videos
   • 2013 - Early Life of Pi
   • 2010 - Twin colts in June
   • 2009 - Death of a colt
   • 2008 - Oblio in June
   • 2008 - Oblio injured in July
   • 2008 - Oblio flies in Sept
   • 2006 - Barbaro grows

Education of crane colts

   • 13 week summer school
   • Core curriculum in Colt School
   • 2006 Barbaro learns to dance
   • 2006 Preflight training
   • 2006 Barbaro's first flights
   • 2015 Run, Flap & Catch Air

Crane biology

   • Sandhill portraits
   • Sandhill mating
   • Cranes in flight
   • Cranes landing
   • Colts landing
   • Cranes feeding
   • Red-crowned Cranes - Kushiro

Hawks, owls, and eagles

   • Fledging kestrels
   • Great-horned owl family
   • Mother owl drowns mother duck
   • Other raptors

Other birds

   • Birds in motion
   • Ducks, geese, grebes
   • Shorebirds
   • Perching birds

Mammals

   • Moose
   • Caribou and reindeer
   • Carnivores
   • Muskoxen and sheep

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