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Graced with illustrations by the author, Crane Music introduces the two North American crane species. The sandhill, most often seen, is within easy reach of bird-watchers in the center of the continent. Less visible is the whooping crane, struggling back from near extinction. Paul Johnsgard follows these elegant birds through a year's cycle, describing their seasonal migrations, natural habitats, breeding biology, call patterns--angelic to the bird-lover's ear--and fascinating dancing.The largest and most spectacular migratory concentration of cranes happens each spring when the Platte River valley becomes the staging ground for an amazing gathering of four hundred thousand to five hundred thousand sandhills en route from the South to the Arctic tundra. Johnsgard describes this incredible event as well as memorable personal encounters with the cranes. His knowledge of them transcends natural history, covering their importance in religion and mythology.
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Johnsgard, author of Cranes of the World (CH, May'84), escapes from his more technical writing to give us this evocative account of cranes in general and the sandhill and whooping cranes in particular. "Cranes are the stuff of magic," he writes, and portrays that magic in the first essay describing the cranes' place in mythology, and their behavior, calls, life history patterns, and migrations. This essay is followed by more on the sandhill crane, whooping crane, and the remaining 13 species in the world. The heart of the book is the delightful account of the most abundant species, the sandhill crane, and its spring concentration in the Platte River valley, where the cranes are becoming more and more crowded in a shrinking habitat. The author laments the fact that whereas the whooping crane is symbolic of the North American conservation movement, the sandhill crane is shot as a game bird in the US, the only crane species to be so treated. Except for the sandhill, all the rest are declining, threatened, or endangered because of loss of habitat. The book, attractively illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches and drawings, maps, and charts, makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in birds.-R. L. Smith, West Virginia University