A majestic bird soars back: Sandhill crane rebounds from near extinction

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More than a century ago, tens of thousands of the majestic birds graced Michigan’s fields and marshes. Red heads flashing, wide wings flapping, they soared in each spring from the South and stayed through mid-December to dance and breed, filling the woodlands with their trumpeting chortles.read more

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