The Nonessential Whooping Crane
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population. I knew I’d never heard that before.
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