SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois biologists are finishing the second phase of an eight-year project to strengthen the osprey population in the state.

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources hopes to re-establish the fish-eating hawks as a nesting species by releasing them at Anderson Lake in Fulton County and Lake Shelbyville in Moultrie County.

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