Our visit to the Whooping Crane exhibit included a number of fascinating stories about the cranes from our expert volunteer guide, Jeannie. The story depicted on their poster inside the exhibit was one we had read about in the Readers Digest. It involved the use of an ultralight plane from Pautuxent, Maryland to help train whooping cranes to migrate. Other stories included one of their staff essentially living with a whooping crane for a couple of years to train it and prepare it for a mate. Enormous effort has gone into breeding these birds in captivity and then releasing them into the wild.