Whooping cranes appear to be spending more time in Canada.
A new study from Nebraska Game and Parks and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows the endangered cranes are flying north earlier in the year and heading back south later.

Joel Jorgensen with Game and Parks calls this three week shift substantial in the whooping cranes’ migration.
He says the timing change has occurred since 1942, but accelerated over the past 20 years.
Jorgensen says the impact on the endangered birds is uncertain.

He says you’re now more likely to see whooping cranes flying north in early March and going south at the end of October or early November.