Alabama's ultralight-led migration on hold
January 2012: Alabama's ultralight-led migration of whooping cranes in the eastern population has been put on hold, after regulatory problems regarding the paying of pilots.
The Fish and Wildlife Service's partner managing this portion of the effort, Operation Migration, has applied for a waiver exempting them from Federal Aviation Administration's regulation that prohibits compensating pilots of this category of aircraft, but is still waiting for a decision.
Nine young whooping cranes began their first migration from Wisconsin following the ultralights in autumn last year. Operation Migration began leading sandhill cranes as a study group in 2000, and has been piloting ultralight aircraft to successfully lead whooping cranes on an Eastern Migratory route each year since 2001.
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