Whooping Cranes and Ultralights Heading Through Georgia

Haralson County, Ga. - The ?cranes and planes? have made their second hop through Georgia for this year's migration. The seventeen endangered Whooping crane chicks and their surrogate parents ? Operation Migration's four ultralight aircraft ? arrived in Haralson County, about 40 miles west of Atlanta on January 7, 2008. They have flown 854 miles of their 1,260-mile journey from Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin to Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge along Floridas Gulf Coast.

"This is by far the longest time it has taken us to make the migration," said Liz Condie of Operation Migration. "We think that the La Ni