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The president of the National Wildlife Federation is traveling Friday to central Nebraska to observe the spring migration of the sandhill cranes.
Larry Schweiger was in Omaha Thursday evening for a wine and cheese social at the Henry Doorly Zoo. The social was an effort to raise funds, “meet some new friends” and give an expected crowd of about 100 a chance to meet Schweiger, said Duane Hovorka, executive director of the Nebraska Wildife Federation.
Schweiger said he had witnessed the fall crane migration in the Dakotas but never the spring phenomenon, “so I’m looking forward to seeing that.”
Hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes arrive in Nebraska from late February through mid-April, resting and feeding for two to four weeks along the Platte River from Chapman, Neb., to Overton.
Schweiger, author of the climate change book “Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth,” gave a presentation Wednesday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln about the effects of such change on wildlife habitats.
Schweiger expects to remain in Nebraska until Sunday.
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