| Clockwise from center:
Speaker's display table, including a stuffed swan with
a whooping crane head used to help brood hatchling whoopers
Nell Baldacchino of the National Wildlife Visitor Center
Carolyn Sturtevant addresses the audience
Speaker Kathy O'Malley
Kathy in the costume used to disguise caretakers so the
baby whoopers don't imprint on humans
Kathy with a stuffed sandhill crane, some books about
whoopers, and the dummy eggs used to fool brooding adults when the real
eggs are taken to be incubated and hand-raised |