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Whooping Crane Standing in Water

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Back from the brink of extinction, the endangered whooping crane is making a slow recovery. Only about 200 are currently living in the wild.
Photograph courtesy Luther Goldman/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Ungainly Grace

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