Ohio Insider: Rise of sandhill cranes in state a success story worth celebrating
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While they're certainly not as popular as bald eagles in Ohio, sandhill cranes deserve a little bit of our attention, too.
We gave the tall, lanky birds some love on the cover of our June 23 edition in a story that spoke of this year’s volunteer crane count in Ohio. As it turns out, volunteer observers in a single day of counting noted 357 sandhills in Ohio, which was a jump from the 311 counted in 2022. During the inaugural year of the count, 2021, observers marked 160 birds.
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