Counting Cranes, Not Sheep. Presenter Leslie Andrich

March 18th 2027

This presentation will be about the International Crane
Foundation’s Midwest Annual Crane Count which marked 50 years in 2026. It will
include how the count is done by volunteers throughout the Midwest in April when the
cranes have arrived back in Wisconsin after spending winter elsewhere and what the ICF
does with the data collected.

Leslie Andrich has been birding her whole life and credits her mother
with nurturing a love of birds and the natural world into her from a very early age. Or waking up in their camper trailer in a campground in some far-flung state on family summer vacations to go “looking for birds” and other things.

She is the current secretary of the Horicon Marsh Bird Club and on the Horicon Marsh
Bird Festival committee. She leads and co-leads birding field trips for the club and
festival.