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Whoopers Released

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A Whooping crane chick is released into a temporary pen to acclimate before being released into the wild.  Four of the endangered chicks, hatched and raised by their parents at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, were released on Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.  

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