CNN The Wonder List With Bill Weir April 13, 2015 05:36:00
>> awesome. all right. let's go see them. how they eat is why they're special. poking their flat beaks into the water feeling for their next meal. so few animals are sensitive to the health of the ecosystem. >> did you hear that? >> yeah. oh, look, yeah. >> by the time plume hunting was banned in the '30s, there were five nesting pairs left in florida bay. but after a generation's worth of work by folks like jerry, there are over 1200 pairs by the 1970s. but just as they reached the brink of recovery in the '90s, a new canal system cut through the everglades to water farms and help ship rocket...