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the summer in Wood Buffalo National PHOTO BY ROBERT CRANE
Park in northwest Canada and in the
fall begin their 2,500-mile migration Alligators can be viewed from trails in the Aransas refuge.
back to the Texas refuge. It is the only
wild self-sustaining flock of whooping
cranes in the world.
According to a preliminary estimate
by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
the Aransas-Wood Buffalo whooping
crane population in winter 2014-2015
was 308 birds. In the past four years,
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PHOTO BY SHERRY MCRAE
The Roseate Spoonbill, one of North America’s most striking birds with its pink plumage and spatulate bill, jockey
for branch space with Great Egrets at the Aransas refuge.
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