• A white hood with goggles propped up for a photograph. The front of the hood has mesh on it, presumably to breathe.
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    Operation Migration staff wore this hood and googles, along with a white smock, as a disguise so that the birds wouldn’t imprint on humans. Staff forbade talking near the cranes for the same reason. Biologists gave numbers—but not names—to each new hatchling to remind people that the birds were not pets.

  • A white hood with goggles propped up for a photograph. The front of the hood has mesh on it, presumably to breathe.

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