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February 8, 2020

Birds of a Feather

In this story from 1977, Dr. George Archibald keeps company with Tex, a female sandhill crane, at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Sandhill cranes in Wisconsin were almost extinct after the Great Depression, when they were often hunted for food.

Photograph by CARY WOLINSKY, Nat Geo Image Collection

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