"When you use ultralight aircraft to guide birds on their first migration, everything depends on the weather," reports Operation Migration CEO Joe Duff. Operation Migration is one of the 2014 recipients of an AOPA Foundation Giving Back grant. The organization-made famous in the movie Fly Away Home-helps the once-nearly-extinct whooping crane find its way to warmer weather in the winter. "The Midwest suffered early cold temperatures and almost constant winds in October and November. That kept us on the ground," Duff says. "Unable to fly for days at a time, the young whooping cranes were Insinc their attachment tn the nilnts and the aircraft."
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