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Planeteer Handbook

Prairie Chicken

Table of Contents

Further Reading

Introduction

Greater Prairie-Chicken Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of OrnithologyFew performances in the bird world are more memorable than the dawn display of Greater Prairie-Chickens at their booming ground, or lek—the traditional spot where males dance, call, and try to impress females with their vigor. When displaying, the males erect earlike plumes on the head and blow up bright orange air sacs on the neck, transforming themselves from brownish chickenlike birds into brightly colored performers, all the while drumming with their feet and producing whooping and cackling calls.

Lesser Prairie-Chicken Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of OrnithologyThe Lesser Prairie-Chicken is a pale grouse of the southern Great Plains, found only in prairie and agricultural land with shinnery oak and sand sagebrush. Once widespread and abundant, its numbers have crashed following heavy hunting in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then conversion of its natural habitat to cropland and rangeland. Like its close relative, the larger, darker Greater Prairie-Chicken, male Lesser Prairie-Chickens gather in spring on “leks,” sites where males compete for females by performing spectacular displays.

Biomes

Grassland

Resources

North America

All About Birds: Bird Guide "ID North American help and life history info for 600+ species"

Organizations

Bird Organizations

Further Reading

North America

USA

Texas

The Upland Game Bird Management Handbook for Texas Landowners (PDF) "This handbook is a template for landowners, land managers and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) staff to use to implement the Texas Quail Conservation Initiative (TQCI), the Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Initiative and other landscape-level, habitat-driven game bird conservation efforts.

This handbook provides information regarding the current status and distribution of game birds in Texas and describes the challenges facing game bird conservationists today.

This handbook also outlines game bird habitat incentives available to landowners and land managers and describes how these incentives tie into the Joint Venture approach to integrated bird management.

The appendices of the handbook are designed to help land managers (1) understand game bird population and habitat management, (2) learn how to estimate game bird numbers, and (3) find sources of additional information about game birds."

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