On 29 September 2020, while crane hunting near Delta Junction, Alaska (64° 02ʹ N, 145° 44ʹ W), Lenze took a Hooded Crane (Grus monacha) when it landed among decoys with a flock of 70+ Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis). The bird had been in the vicinity for several days, but its exact arrival date is unknown. The specimen (University of Alaska Museum 45000) was a male weighing 3300 g, with light fat; it appeared to be in good health. We inferred that the bird was in its second year (~15 months old) from its adult-like head and neck plumage, unlike that of first fall juveniles, which do not have a black crown/forehead patch (Figure 1). The relatively worn, brownish remiges that are uniformly shorter than one replaced secondary on the right wing (Figure 2) represent juvenal feathers (i.e., first generation). The replaced secondary 5 and other feathers appeared too new to have gone through a year’s wear and had likely been replaced as part of the second prebasic molt before the bird started its southward migration. The tail had two retained juvenal feathers (faded and shorter than the rest) on the right side, and there were at least two generations of feathers in the wing coverts (Figure 2). The details of molt in cranes, the Hooded Crane being no exception, are not well understood (see Howell 2010