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Bringing back the ‘most endangered bird’ in the U.S. Craig Pittman © Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark At the end of the 2020 breeding season in August, researchers counted some 112 Florida grasshopper sparrows in the wild. Ashleigh Blackford has seen her share of dramatic bird releases over the years. She vividly recalls California condors soaring high into the sky and San Clemente loggerhead shrikes fluttering free. The tiny Florida grasshopper sparrow, on the other hand, merely hopped out of an open screen and skittered along the ground, says Blackford, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. © Photograph by Joel Sartore, Nat Geo Image Collection

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