Sentences with phrase «prairie chicken»

«Including the lesser prairie chicken on the endangered species list will diminish private land owners» control over their own property and threaten agriculture and energy jobs,» he explained.

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

Scientists focused on prairie chicken habitat in the southwestern part of their distribution in New Mexico and West Texas.

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 least 2020.

On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

The results are somewhat surprising, especially because similar studies have shown that oil and gas development affect prairie chickens, Sandercock said.

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

As DeSmog reported, the lesser prairie chicken makes its home in the Permian Basin, a hotbed for the fast - growing hydrualic fracturing (fracking) industry.

Later, Duane worked as a soil scientist and even studied prairie chicken habitat with former students of Aldo Leopold.

A clue to the mixed leks is that the male prairie chickens were more likely to join sharp - tail leks than vice versa.

Warehouses and ticky tacky covered the fields where Splash had shot prairie chickens; where woods had grown, freeways ran thick with black plastic cars full of pink plastic men in brown plastic suits.

The Smoky Hills site — the Meridian Way Wind Power Facility near Concordia — was developed into a wind energy site, which gave researchers the opportunity to observe greater prairie chickens before, during and after wind turbine construction.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

Heath Hens are very close to greater prairie chickens genetically.

Accordingly, Martha's Vineyard funders are providing $ 180K (we're partway there) to cover two years of research on developing chimeric greater prairie chickens by editing the primordial germ cells of their embryos.

ATTWATER»S PRAIRIE CHICKEN MATH ACTIVITY Table 1.

An anti-environmental land, water, and air polluter who holds grudges against oil field prairie chickens and overheated polar bears?

According to additional research by Defenders of Wildlife, Huelskamp sponsored several other bills in 2015 designed to delist the lesser prairie chicken as endangered.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering listing the lesser prairie chicken as a «threatened» species.

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.

Before European settlers arrived, the billion acres of grasses that blanketed the High Plains were home to pronghorn antelope and swift fox, lesser prairie chickens and burrowing owls as well as buffalo.

Several federal government programs provide economic incentives for conservation of existing grasslands — recognizing their role in reducing erosion, sequestering carbon, and providing habitat for the lesser prairie chicken and other endangered species.

A seven - year study from a Kansas State University research team has found that wind power development has little effect on greater prairie chickens.

Related sites Gibson's page Höglund's page Pages on the greater prairie chicken and the sharp - tailed grouse

So when he learned that prairie chickens and sharp - tails sometimes lek together, Gibson saw an opportunity to test the idea.

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

A greater prairie chicken (left) and a sharp - tailed grouse (right) show off their stuff.

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.

Courtship isn't a private affair for the greater prairie chicken and some other bird species.

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.

An urgent effort to save the West's iconic lesser prairie chicken could point the way to a truce in other endangered - species battles

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.

If it works, then some day soon, greater prairie chickens could be laying fertile Heath Hen eggs, and the first extinct bird would return to the world.