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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. I raised 4 of the cranes shot this year– chicks that still had much of their brown plumage.

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