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  • Kelly Maguire, aviculturist at the International Crane Foundation, listens for sound as she scratches a Whooping Crane egg.  The International Crane Foundations Direct Autumn Release program reintroduces the endangered Whooping Crane into the wild.  "Hatch to Release", is the story of Whooping Crane reintroduction.
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  • A young Whooping Crane looks toward a puppet for food in it's first month of life.  The Endangered Whooping Crane chicks are raised by aviculturists in costume until their release
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  • A endangered Whooping Crane pips it's shell during the hatch process.
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  • Exhausted after hatching from it's shell, a Whooping Cranes rests in an incubator at the International Crane Foundation.
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  • A costumed aviculturist takes a young Whooping Crane outside for the first time.  The endangered cranes are raised by humans in costume until there release into the wild.
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  • A young Whooping Crane takes some food from the puppet head of the costumed aviculturist.
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  • A young Whooping Crane stretches it's wings on a marsh walk.
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  • A costumed aviculturist demonstrates how to forage for food in a pond to a young Whooping Crane.
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  • Taking food from the parent is a natural event for a young Whooping Crane.  In the Direct Autumn release program costumed aviculturists raise the chicks just as a Whooping Crane parent would.
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  • A Whooping Crane chick is given a vet check by a costumed aviculturists.
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  • An endangered Whooping Crane chick takes a marsh walk with a costumed aviculturist learning to forge for food.
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  • Looking out from a blind window as an endangered Whooping Crane chick takes a marsh walk with a costumed aviculturist learning to forge for food.
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  • A young Whooping Crane runs after a costumed aviculturist flapping its wings.
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  • The legs of a young Whooping Crane as it walks through a pond.
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  • A young Whooping Crane forges for food.
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  • Young Whooping Cranes flap their wings showing of their primary feathers.
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  • A young Whooping Crane cleans itself.
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  • As the Whooping Cranes grow they take longer walks and learn to feed themselves and become more independent.
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  • Two of the Direct Autumn Release Whooping start to show their white feather as they mature.
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  • A costumed aviculturists feeds a juvenile Whooping Crane.
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  • A juvenile Whooping Crane shows off its feathers.
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  • As a young Whooping Crane takes flight and fledges for the first time as it follows two costumed aviculturists who are running and flapping their arms to simulate take off.
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  • The puppet head of an adult Whooping Crane as worn by a costumed aviculturist.
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  • Juvenile Whooping Cranes take a prairie walk with costumed aviculturists.
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  • A juvenile Whooping Crane stands in a prairie.
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  • A juvenile Whooping Crane looks at the photographer using a camera while in a crane costume.
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  • Taking flight.
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  • As the Whooping Crane grow and mature they fly further distances away from the costumed aviculturists.
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  • The 2013 Direct Autumn Release Whooping Cranes walk through the prairie at sunrise.
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  • Whooping Cranes forage for food in a marsh under the watch of costumed aviculturists.
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  • Stretching the wings in the morning sun.
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  • A group of Direct Autumn Release Whooping Cranes fly over the marsh.
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  • A juvenile Whooping Crane adjusts its feathers.
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  • The Direct Autumn Release Whooping Cranes are kept in a safe inclosure at night until the time of their release.
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  • A costumed aviculturist looks out into the marsh for the 9 Whooping Cranes.
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  • A juvenile Whooping Crane jumps up on an early morning walk.
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  • Release day for the Whooping Cranes.  All 9 of the 2014 Direct Autumn Release Whooping Cranes were gathered into their boxes and taking away from their pen and released into the wild.  On there own for the first time.
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  • Release day for the Whooping Cranes.  All 9 of the 2014 Direct Autumn Release Whooping Cranes were gathered into their boxes and taking away from their pen and released into the wild.  On there own for the first time.
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  • Release day for the Whooping Cranes.  All 9 of the 2014 Direct Autumn Release Whooping Cranes were gathered into their boxes and taking away from their pen and released into the wild.  On there own for the first time.
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  • Flying after release.  Four Whooping Cranes take to flight to get their bearings after release.
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