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Hagerty, Ryan/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
11/23/2016
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Public Domain
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The whooping crane, along with the sandhill crane, are the only two crane species in the U.S. The whooping crane was pushed to the brink of extinction with only 23 left in the wild or captivity by 1941 due to unregulated hunting practices. Captive breeding programs fed whooping cranes by hand using this puppet so they would not get used to or imprint on humans.
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