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Woup-doup-doup, woup-doup-doup, woup-doup-doup (le « doup-doup », c’est le cri de la femelle; le « woup », celui du mâle). Ainsi va l’appel à l’accouplement de la grue blanche tel que l’interprète George Archibald, et s’il y en a bien un qui sait, c’est lui.
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Woop-doop-doop, woop-doop-doop, woop-doop-doop (“the doop-doop is the female and the woop is the male”). This is the mating call of the whooping crane as interpreted by George Archibald, and he would know. Archibald is the extraordinarily passionate and creative ornithologist who helped save the whooping crane from extinction by romancing a female of that species — the long-legged, long-necked, crimson-crowned, five-foot-tall, white birds whose call carries for miles. “Nothing they do,” Archibald once said in praise of them, “is without grace… They are fascinating, charismatic creatures.”
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