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Endangered white storks hatch egg

by Pat Coate | May 21, 2007

Unidentified Location, Japan - A couple of endangered storks in Japan have hatched a chick in the wild for the first time in more than 40 years.

Oriental white storks became extinct in Japan in the 1980s, but conservationists have been trying to successfully reintroduce the species.

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