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Whooping Crane Ancestry

10,000 Birds

Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock. According to the ABA, they are not countable. By 1950, the Louisiana flock was gone.

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