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 MILWAUKEE (AP) - A pair of whooping cranes has hatched two chicks in central Wisconsin, marking the first young of the species to be hatched in the wild in the eastern United States in more than 100 years.
That makes about two dozen young cranes — including the first three conceived in the wild — that will be added this year in the effort to establish a second migratory flock of the endangered birds in North America.
Operation Migration, the group coordinating the project, posted photos on its Web site showing two brown chicks being tended by their adult parents among thick grass of the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge.
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