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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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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. I raised 4 of the cranes shot this year– chicks that still had much of their brown plumage. Nobody needs to eat them.

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