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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

The USFWS designated the whooping cranes in this population “nonessential and experimental.” Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. In 2011 their population was estimated at over 3,000 individuals, increasing steadily at 5-8% every year. And get angry and take action.

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