Sentences with phrase «for prairie chickens»

The team is conducting follow - up studies to test mitigation strategies that may improve habitat conditions for prairie chickens.

Not exact matches

The major circuit for setters, pointers, Weimaraners and Brittany spaniels begins each year in Canada on pheasant, prairie chicken or Hungarian partridge and swings down through the South in the winter.

Male greater prairie chickens make booming calls to attract females for mating.

«We don't have evidence for really strong effects of wind power on prairie chickens or their reproduction,» Sandercock said.

«The research will certainly aid with wind power site guidelines and with the development of mitigation strategies to enhance habitat conditions for the greater prairie chicken.»

Because sharp - tails spend more time watching for predators, prairie chickens may join leks to benefit from the association, the researchers say.

Both the prairie chicken and the sharp - tailed grouse, for example, inflate colorful air sacs on their necks, stamp their feet, spread their wings and tails, and make booming sounds that can attract coyotes and raptors as well as females.

«Lesser prairie - chicken survival relies on the combination of habitat and climate, and larger areas of habitat provide more opportunities for them to survive a difficult climate,» said USGS scientist and study co-author Clint Boal.

The authors noted that these findings do not suggest that the prairie chicken will become extinct, but rather indicate potential for population declines in New Mexico and West Texas if no actions are taken.

President Barack Obama's administration is under court order to decide by 30 September how to protect the bird: declare it an endangered species — the nuclear option in conservation — or opt for the less onerous conservation strategies that officials are testing on its fellow rangeland bird, the lesser prairie chicken.

Grouse Park, a breeding facility in Idaho, has built the pens and acquired the greater prairie chickens to provide 40 embryos (eggs) next spring, and we have contracted with Crystal Bioscience in Emeryville, California, to establish the germ - cell resources necessary for genome editing.

Saving the prairie chicken: Work in Kansas has national significance for declining species of grassland bird

At this time of day the river bottoms all the way to Nebraska would be obscured by gray clouds of smoke, as the pioneers stopped their trains for the night and cooked deer steaks and prairie chickens for their evening meal.

Well, given that the UK currently have NO lesser prairie chickens, it would be quite hard for windfarms to wipe them out.

Co-sponsored the «Lesser Prairie Chicken Voluntary Recovery Act of 2015,» or H.R. 659, which would remove Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken as threatened until at leasChicken Voluntary Recovery Act of 2015,» or H.R. 659, which would remove Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken as threatened until at leaschicken as threatened until at least 2020.