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...findings, our assessment of the injury was that it was a groin strain. For her to continue to train and compete at the level she needs to would put her at further risk of injury, and it was our recommendation that she withdraw," said Dr. Jim Moeller...
...Moeller told Kwan what she was expecting to hear. "I knew I was stiff and knew I was in pain. You don't have to be told you're in pain by someone else," she said. Moeller confirmed that the injury is a new one, and that Kwan' doctor had cleared her to compete in Torino after she had made a full recovery from the earlier injury December that prevented her from skating at the Olympic qualifier in last month. "I had to make the decision to withdraw from the team, and not compete in my third Olympics. I think...
...Moeller farm on Mormon Island, Neb., lies right in the path of the central flyway, a great avian migratory route that runs from central Mexico to eastern Siberia. Through it each spring pass 560,000 sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small...
...gathering of sandhill cranes on and around the Moeller farm is one of nature's most spectacular rites of spring. "It is," writes Ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson, "the largest concentration of any species of crane anywhere in the world." In the lifting darkness that precedes sunrise, the sandhills roosting in the shallows might be mistaken for carvings on a stone frieze. Soon the frieze begins to ripple with motion as the cranes stretch their wings and, voices rising, take off in small groups of 20 and 30. For over an hour, the river casts out lines of great gray birds...
...annual chorus is a familiar sound to Pat and Larry Moeller. "It's eerie," says Pat. "A couple of weeks ago, there were so many they filled the sky, and there was not a one that didn't have its mouth open." The Moellers live in a white farmhouse on 400 acres of land that used to belong to Larry's father and uncle, and before that his grandfather, and before that his great grandfather. Next year, however, title to the property will pass to a local conservation group called the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust. "It's kind...