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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. That’s what you do with other game, right? There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population. One percent of the wild population of whooping cranes fell to guns this winter alone.

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