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Crane chick hatched in wild is on the way south with parents
By Associated press
Published November 25, 2006
A whooping crane chick hatched in the wild at a Wisconsin refuge is making more history as it migrates south toward Florida with its parents. The chick was one of two hatched in June at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin. They were the first chicks in more than a century hatched in the wild by migrating whooping cranes in the eastern United States. The smaller of the two chicks apparently was killed by a predator in September, The larger one left Necedah with its parents Sunday on their southward migration. On Thursday the three stopped in Parke County, Indiana, and by Friday they had traveled 675 miles to Cumberland County, Tenn.
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