The Nonessential Whooping Crane
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.
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