Cranes
Northern New York Audubon has supported AWI to highlight birds as part of the Wool and Water project. An adaptation of Megan Lapp’s Feather Wings Shawl, the shape and colors in this crochet shawl are meant to evoke the sandhill crane, a species that was first noted in New York in 1999 at Montezuma Wildlife Refuge. Cranes were initially reported in the Adirondacks in Tupper Lake Marsh and known to breed there, but over the course of the last decade they are being spotted in increasing numbers of locations across the park, with evidence of breeding in some of our largest wetland complexes. Using reported sightings from eBird, the red accents across the top of the shawl depict the number of locations in which sandhill crane was reported in the Adirondack Park annually between 2013 – 2022.
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