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Alabama To Allow Sandhill Crane Hunting After More Than 100 Years

The season begins later this year. The state joins Tennessee and Kentucky as the third state east of the Mississippi River to permit sandhill crane hunting.
A group of sandhill cranes fly together in New Mexico.

Sandhill cranes were once on the verge of extinction. That influenced the U.S. to implement laws in to protect the species. But now that these migratory birds have made a steady comeback in recent years, Alabama has decided to permit hunters to kill

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