A game bird ecologist with the DNR told the Journal Sentinel the sandhill crane causing issues in Oconomowoc likely wouldn't ...

when he saw an enormous white bird fly overhead. He thought it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. It was a red-crowned crane, and he resolved to learn everything he could about it.

The 25-year-old endangered bird was a fixture of Buena Lago neighborhood under construction outside St. Cloud.