The Nonessential Whooping Crane
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. And fun and food are, I’d submit, not enough reason to fell a bird in which only one in three pairs manages to raise a single chick each season; a bird that has captured the imagination and hearts of tens of thousands of people, whose sonorous purr floats down from on high like the voice of a pterosaur.
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