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A disguised biologist approaches an endangered whooping crane in Louisiana, USA.

Michael has been chronicling the lives of endangered whooping cranes since early 2019.

The biologist acted with cat-like quickness to check the bird’s health and change a transmitter that was no longer working.

The transmitter helps biologists track these non-migratory birds and learn more about them.

This experimental population was reintroduced in Bayou Country in 2011. In the 1940s there were roughly 20 whooping cranes in the region. Since then, numbers have climbed to over 800.