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Show Whooping Crane Again Makes Annual Flight into Canada CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX. The whooping crane, a stately bird balanced bal-anced on the edge of extinction, made the north flight again. The huge white bird with the rusty-head was headed for grounds in Canada that have defied years of search by ornithologists. Bird-lovers fear the whooper, like the passenger pigeon and the dodo, may become extinct. The time of danger Is when the whooper migrates, traveling from south Texas. to Canada and passing over trigger-happy hunters. In tight family groups 28 wild cranes began to take to the air from the Aransas Game Refuge near here. In a few days almost all were gone. Only four were left a pair In captivity, a cripple, and the cripple' mate. The mate refused to leave. Recent records show that there are only three others living. One ii at Gothenburg, Neb., one in a Louisiana zoo, and one in the London Lon-don zoo. |