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A study of female greater prairie-chickens in Kansas found that their survival rates were 1.6 to 2.0 times higher during the non-breeding season compared to the breeding season; this was due to heavy predation during nesting and brood-rearing. [16] One problem facing prairie-chickens is competition with the ring-necked pheasants. Pheasants lay ...
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Morton County, Kansas, was the most devastated county in the nation. The Federal government bought land from bankrupt farmers, restored the original prairie, and in 1960 the Cimarron National Grassland was created. The grassland is dedicated to "water conservation, wildlife management, recreation, cattle grazing, and mineral production."
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moved to classify the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas as threatened, increasing the bird's legal protection.
Kansas Sens. Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran risk birds’ extinction to shield oil and ag barons from slight inconvenience. Prairie chickens expose the ancient mating dance of politicians and ...
Tympanuchus comes from Ancient Greek roots and means "holding a drum"; it refers to the membranous neck sacks and the drum-like call of the greater prairie chicken. The two prairie chickens are particularly closely related and look extremely similar. But their taxonomy and the evolutionary relationships of the Tympanuchus is yet to be ...
The greater prairie chicken puts on spectacular displays on its breeding grounds in spring. However the species' future in Wisconsin is in jeopardy.
The lesser prairie-chicken's habitat has been reduced by 85%, and their population has declined by about 97% since 1800, in part due to unrestricted hunting. [7] Of the remaining patches of suitable habitat, only around 0.1% are sufficiently contiguous to sustain even a minimum population of the birds.