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A concentrated conservation effort has helped the wild cranes. The last complete count showed that at least 46 wintered at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge on the Texas coast in 1967. The largest number since scientists and bird lovers began keeping track about 30 yeafs ago, it indicates that the threatened whooping crane gradually is winning the fight for survival. Commute at 45 mph
Commuting between summer and winter homes, the birds cruise at 45 miles per hour and cover about 200 miles a day despite frequent food stops. They arrive with their young in Texas in late October or early November.
“Few birds,” says National Geographic’s Water, Prey, and Game Birds of North America, “can match the nobility of the whooping crane (Grus
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