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Rare Hooded Crane that winters on the Japanese island of Kyushu spotted in Tennessee

Emily

Emily

Editor, Senior Moderator
This is good for tourism, but it seems to be mainly TN birders that hope this is a wild crane. The out of state birders think this bird escaped from a breeder. Several got loose in Idaho a few years back.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-tennessee-birds-asian-crane-idUSTRE7BR03R20111228
By Tim Ghianni

NASHVILLE | Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:17am EST

(Reuters) - A rare Asian hooded crane, normally seen only in Southeast Asia, China and Japan, apparently "took a wrong turn" and has joined sandhill cranes wintering at the Hiwassee Refuge in southeast Tennessee, bird experts say, drawing flocks of curious birdwatchers along with it...
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