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Finding Their Own Food
Peggy and her puppet forage with the young birds as they find their own food. Peggy (from the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center) helped Eva with the cranes until early February. The costumes spend less time with the young birds now. They must learn independence.


The young cranes forage in the water, learning to  find their own food.
Image Eva Szyszkoski