Over five years photographer and author Michael Forsberg immersed himself in whooperland—a universe of another kind and yet reliant on human care. He followed the last wild population, numbering some 540 birds, on their narrow, 2,500-mile Great Plains flyway from the Texas Gulf Coast to nesting grounds in remote boreal forests of Canada’s Northwest Territories.

From inside the whooper portal, Mike shares the birds’ saga in this remarkable book. He tells the extraordinary stories of tough, adaptive individual birds and families. He follows them by truck and small plane through wetlands, marshes and rivers. 

At every turn, Mike finds the birds’ essence in notes written in cramped blinds and with stunningly beautiful images, capturing cranes in their chosen places up and down the continent.

Welcome to whooperland, a special world.

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