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Sandhill Crane Field Trip

Saturday, November 10, 2012
2:00PM - 6:00PM

Annual field trip to see 10,000 cranes. Trip leaves from Indiana Dunes State Park.Spend an evening with Indiana’s largest wildlife spectacle on November 13, as a special field trip tour is offered to view the Sandhill Crane migration at Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area. The evening field trip meets at the Indiana Dunes State Park Nature Center at 2:00pm (CST). A short introduction will be given about the history and current status of cranes in Indiana, and then the group will bus to Jasper-Pulaski to view up to 20,000 cranes as they head for their evening roost in the Fish and Wildlife Area. The trip will finish back at the Nature Center around 6pm. The trip leader is Brad Bumgardner, Indiana Dunes State Park Interpretive Naturalist.