prairie-chickens

Lesser prairie-chickens use both shin oak and sandsage prairie habitats, but are presently imperiled due to agricultural conversion to modern farming practices as well as intensive grazing.

Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

I forgot to mention that I have a 2nd article in the same issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, with a funny name -- Chicken of the Sea World: Though it's known mainly for acrobatic marine life, SeaWorld also breeds Attwater's prairie-chickens.

Attwater's prairie chickens WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2009

Lesser prairie-chickens use shin oak and sandsage prairie habitats, but are presently imperiled due to agricultural practices as well as intensive grazing.

Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA) 2009

The shrubs offer cover and shade for nesting prairie-chickens, and shin oak acorns are a staple food source.

Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA) 2009

I forgot to mention that I have a 2nd article in the same issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, with a funny name -- Chicken of the Sea World: Though it's known mainly for acrobatic marine life, SeaWorld also breeds Attwater's prairie-chickens.

Archive 2009-01-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2009

Lesser prairie-chickens, a unique grouse of the High Plains, inhabit shinnery oak and sand sagebrush habitats.

Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA) 2009

He had laid off his boots, his pipe was freshly filled, and he sat in the doorway in vast content, unmindful of the glory of color that filled the western sky, and the superb evening chorus of the prairie-chickens, holding conventions on every hillock.

Drifting Crane 1995

Pa uses Queen to hunt prairie-chickens with, and Queen and Cetchum hunt rabbits by themselves.

Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

"No: I have shot wild ones, as well as prairie-chickens, quail, and -- deer."

Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

Well, she went on to say that telegraph-wires are not always such good friends to birds, for she had heard that, along the great railroads in the West, large numbers of prairie-chickens are killed at certain seasons of the year by flying against the wires.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various