The once-endangered osprey has ‘increased dramatically’ in Illinois

Wildlife biologist Chuck Rizzo climbs into the bucket of an aerial lift truck in an otherwise ordinary Cook County, Ill., forest preserve and rises to his destination: a sturdy, stick-strewn platform built on top of a 50-foot telephone pole.
The lift operator maneuvers the bucket to the platforms, where Rizzo reaches toward the sticks and lifts out two pudgy osprey chicks with bulging chocolate-brown eyes and bellies covered in fluff.

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