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Record 8 fledged chicks for Louisiana’s wild ‘whoopers’

FILE - A keeper wearing a "crane suit," to resemble a parent whooping crane, feeds a recently born chick at the Audubon Nature Institute's Species Survival Center in New Orleans, on June 21, 2018. A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild. It’s not just a record for fledglings of the world's rarest crane in Louisiana, but for any flock of the endangered birds reintroduced to the wild, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) In this image obtained via trail camera and provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, two adult whooping cranes, one female and the other male, and an 11-day-old chick wade in Jefferson Davis Parish, La., on April 4, 2022. A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild. It’s not just a record for fledglings of the world's rarest crane in Louisiana, but for any flock of the endangered birds reintroduced to the wild, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries via AP) In this image obtained via trail camera and provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, two adult whooping cranes, one female and the other male, and an 11-day-old chick wade in Avoyelles Parish, La., March 29, 2022. A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild. It’s not just a record for fledglings of the world's rarest crane in Louisiana, but for any flock of the endangered birds reintroduced to the wild, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries via AP) In this image obtained via trail camera and provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, two adult whooping cranes, one female and the other male, stand over a one-day-old chick in Allen Parish, La., on May 6, 2022. A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild. It's not just a record for fledglings of the world's rarest crane in Louisiana, but for any flock of the endangered birds reintroduced to the wild, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries via AP) FILE - A captive-bred whooping crane and its wild-hatched chick forage through a crawfish pond in Jefferson Davis Parish, La., on June 11, 2018. A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild. It's not just a record for fledglings of the world's rarest crane in Louisiana, but for any flock of the endangered birds reintroduced to the wild, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)