Miss. Biologists Stay Optimistic, Proactive About Crane Population

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GAUTIER - Just south of Interstate 10 and west of Miss. 57 in Jackson County, a white U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sport utility vehicle crawled along the fringe of a sprawling wetland.

It came to a stop where a mottled brown egg stuck out against the water's glassy surface and surrounding vegetation. Three sandhill cranes, with five-foot-wide wings outstretched, took to the air in the distance, alarmed by the alien in their midst.

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Miss. Biologists Stay Optimistic, Proactive About Crane Population

Wildlife biologist Scott Hereford had suspected one of the egg's parents would be perching above it, shielding it from the potentially calamitous heat of an early summer s...

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