Wild Times
“They’re a much more delicate bird, compared to the swans,” says Carrie McClelland, a wildlife viewing biologist with Environment Yukon. “They stand three and a half to four feet tall, with a six foot wingspan, but they...
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A Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis)
I am pleased to announce that I recently had my first encounter with a sandhill crane.I have never gone to the Crane and Sheep Festival in Faro, which is held in May, and the time and place when the cranes fly over the town....
Read MoreNothing, Nothing, Nothing… Then Honks Galore!
Sometimes it seems like maybe they might not come. Then you hear them: the faint, high-pitched croaking, growing louder and louder.Then the sky fills with hundreds of sandhill cranes, flying in huge Vs that morph and swoop as...
Read MoreCranes Fly High Up in the Sky
The thermals above the town of Faro may account for the “tens of thousands” of sand hill cranes that fly above it each spring.Or so Rose Fulton speculates. Fulton works for the town, and is the Faro Crane and Sheep Viewing...
Read MoreFaro’s sheep and cranes ready for their closeup
Faro’s Crane and Sheep Viewing Festival has attracted international attention before as it grows yet again in its fifth year, but this time the International Crane Foundation will help attract even more attention.The...
Read MoreSandhills on Demand
A quarter million sandhill cranes!When, anywhere in this territory, do we have the opportunity to see a quarter million anything?Caribou? Nope. People? Not even close. Trees? Well, probably, but trees aren’t typically very...
Read More100 Steps Further In
Faro-based artist Jackie Irvine set herself a challenge. What if she painted one painting a day for 100 days?Starting October 1, 2011 she did just that. And every day, even if she was stranded in Whitehorse without her acrylic...
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