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Officials say migrating cranes produced egg
By Times Staff Writer
Published April 21, 2005
The migratory whooping cranes that recently returned to Wisconsin from Florida have produced what officials think is the flock's first egg.
A crane from the 2001 hatchling group and one from 2002 were seen exhibiting nesting behavior in an area where they had defended their territory last year, according to officials with Operation Migration. The cranes also appeared to be incubating an egg. When the cranes were foraging on Sunday, researchers examined the nest. They found evidence that there had been an egg there that had been destroyed. Cranes reach sexual maturity between the ages of 3 and 8, and others in the experimental flock are also pairing off and behaving as though they might produce eggs, officials said.
[Last modified April 21, 2005, 01:05:18]
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