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Fearing spread, volunteers clean up 1,500 Sandhill cranes killed by bird flu

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More than 1,500 sandhill cranes have been killed by bird flu in Indiana .

Volunteers in masks and gloves have been collecting the 15-pound birds from shorelines, marshes and ponds.

Data indicates this may be the single-largest bird die-off caused by avian flu in at least three years .

The outbreak also raises fears about the potential threat to the endangered whooping cranes.

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