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The Department of Natural Resources
reports rare whooping cranes have been sighted in Rice and Le Sueur counties in south-central Minnesota.


      DNR regional nongame wildlife specialist Lisa Gelvin-Innvaer
calls the reports "exciting" since so few whooping cranes exist
in the wild.


      Gelvin-Innvaer says the whooping crane is a critically imperiled
North American species. In 1940, there were only 16 whooping cranes
left in the world. The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership started a
new flock in Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin
and trained the birds to migrate along their normal route between
Wisconsin and coastal Florida.


      Gelvin-Innvaer says the pair recently sighted could be part of
that flock.


      Hunters are asked to be careful this fall, so they do not
mistake a whooping crane for other migratory waterfowl.

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The Department of Natural Resources
reports rare whooping cranes have been sighted in Rice and Le Sueur counties in south-central Minnesota.


Whooping cranes sighted in south-central Minnesota

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