Photo: Nick De La Torre, Staff
A male and female whooping crane look for food in March 2010 at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. An Aransas Project lawsuit over high salinity levels in the cranes' feeding grounds, due to withdrawals of water from rivers, goes to trial this week in New Orleans.
Scientists recorded major losses of critically endangered whooping cranes on the Texas coast during a seriously dry winter four years ago.
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