CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Whooping Crane Festival is taking place this weekend in Port Aransas.
The event has been a tradition since 1996 and is celebrating its 27th anniversary.
It is a celebration of the crane's yearly return to their wintering habitat at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge.
The four-day event features useful information and insights on what you could see when you go.
"We show them on the map," Laura Bonneau from the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge said. "Here's some different places we suggest. We've had whooping crane showing up on Jones Lake which you walk right out and they've been five feet from visitors so that's new which is something you don't usually see so that's kind of cool."
The event started on Thursday and will continue throughout the weekend from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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