American Birding Association @aba.org · Jun 16 Breeding Bird Spotlight: Whooping Crane! Cool Fact: By the 1940s, only about 20 Whooping Cranes remained in the wild. Thanks to decades of conservation efforts, the species has rebounded to several hundred wild birds today. Have you ever seen a Whooping Crane?
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Yes there are 3 in Port Aransas, TX in the winter recently.
Not sure I'd call several hundred a rebound, more a toddlers stagger towards the right direction, they are still, largely one big oil spill or ecological catastrophe in Aransas or Wood Buffalo away from being an almost solely a human curated species...like yeah good but let's not drop the banner, W.