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Early records suggest that xxxxxxxx xxxxxx (Grus canadensis) were common residents south and west of Minnesota's forested region until the mid-1870's. Ecologically speaking, cranes employ a "slow" life-history strategy: they are long-lived, defer breeding for several years after fledging, exhibit very low reproductive rates and experience high annual survival. As a result, xxxx populations are more vulnerable to exploitation than species exhibiting "faster" life histories. Therefore, it's not surprising that rapid human expansion in the 1880's and settlement of Minnesota's prairie region resulted in the extirpation of xxxxx in much of their former range. Once common, the xxxxxxxx xxxxxx was considered rare by 1900 and it has been estimated that only 10-25 pairs were nesting in Minnesota in the mid-1940's. Since then xxxxxxxx xxxxxx populations have made a steady, if not rapid, recovery (Status and Distribution of xxxxxxxx xxxxxx in Minnesota, 1985; Birds of North America No. 31, 1992).
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