Well, maybe not EXACTLY the same thing

An excerpt from this article:

During Audubon’s time, whoopers migrated from the Gulf Coast to vast marshlands throughout the Midwest and Canada. But as Americans moved west, the swamps were drained and converted to farmland. By 1870 the whooping crane population had dropped to 1,500. “The loss of wet prairie was far and away the biggest reason for the bird’s decline,” said John Fitzpatrick, director of the Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University. “We basically removed its habitat and the bird, which wasn’t very abundant to begin with, simply vanished. It’s the same thing that happened with the ivory-bill and its virgin bottomland forest.”