Birds: Cranes through Passerines (Jewel Case)

Oh in 1942 there are only twenty-two whooping cranes left alive their habitat was vanishing and they'd been hunted till they were almost extinct everyone had given up on this species but a small group of scientists and other folks came up with a crazy plan to raise whooping cranes and teach them to be wild even how to migrate it was quite a lot of worry about whether it would working on you know biologists of let you know that's ridiculous you can't do it but we had to try the future of this species was hanging in the balance here at Patuxent we have the largest captive whooping crane population in the world but raising a bird in a captive environment that is actually ready to be wild is incredibly challenging it is a grand experiment and there are no guarantees that it will work here we just got an egg from one of the captive pairs every single one of these chicks is very valuable fort