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  2. Whooping crane - Wikipedia

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    The whooping crane (Grus americana) is an endangered crane species, native to North America, [3] [1] named for its "whooping" calls. Along with the sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), it is one of only two crane species native to North America, and it is also the tallest North American bird species. [3]

  3. List of cranes - Wikipedia

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    The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.

  4. Grus (genus) - Wikipedia

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    The name Grus is the Latin word for "crane". [2] The German ornithologist Peter Simon Pallas was sometimes credited with erecting the genus in 1766 [ 3 ] but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1956 that Brisson should have priority.

  5. Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership raised whooping crane (Grus americana) chicks in Wisconsin's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge then guided them to the Chassahowitzka NWR for the winter. Despite severe mortality from hurricanes in 2007, the re-introduction has been successful and by 2010 there were up to 105 migrating birds ...

  6. Dallas Zoo offers $12.5K reward after whooping crane found ...

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    The Dallas Zoo is offering a $12,500 reward after authorities found a whooping crane dead with a gunshot wound, the zoo said this week in a post on X. The crane was released into the wild as a ...

  7. What Happened to Myspace (and Is It Even Still Around)? - AOL

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    It was announced that Myspace lost 12 years worth of content in a server migration gone wrong. So that meant any songs, photos and videos uploaded to the site between 2003-2015 were straight up ...

  8. Robert Porter Allen - Wikipedia

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    Robert Porter Allen (24 April 1905 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania – 28 June 1963) was an American ornithologist and environmentalist.He achieved worldwide attention for his rescue operations of the whooping crane (Grus Americana) in the 1940s and 1950s.Allen helped save the roseate spoonbill from extinction. [1]

  9. File:Grus americana map.svg - Wikipedia

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