Sentences with phrase «tailed prairie»

ADLA volunteers have helped Arizona Game & Fish Department biologists on the successful project to reintroduce black - tailed prairie dogs to Southern Arizona after being extirpated 50 years ago.

In 2000, the U.S. Department of the Interior declared the black - tailed prairie dog «warranted» for listing as a threatened species, however the secretary was «precluded from actually listing the species by more urgent concerns».

Plague doesn't usually kill people these days, but it's alive and well among the millions of ground - dwelling rodents of Colorado and other western states, notably the black - tailed prairie dog.

The same method might be used for the black - tailed prairie dog — removed from the endangered species list but still declining on the Great Plains and often infected by fleas with plague bacteria, Knutie says.

If I had studied only black - tailed prairie dogs, I would have concluded that costs and benefits of polyandry are minimal.

«For most animals, including Utah and white - tailed prairie dogs, the truth about polyandry usually lies somewhere between these two extremes.»

For Gunnison's and white - tailed prairie dogs, however, polyandrous females were less likely than monandrous females to survive until the next mating season.

These species are black - tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and white - tailed prairie dogs.

Not exact matches

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

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

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

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.

Gunnison's Prairie Dog (C. gunnisoni) has a much shorter tail than other prairie dogs.

Comparisons Of the two main species of prairie dogs, the black - tailed (C. ludovicianus) has a black - tipped tail and is much more widespread, occurring sparsely over the Great Plains and throughout the Great Basin.

Black - tailed are the prairie dogs normally sold in pet shops and may either be a baby caught in the wild or from a breeder.

There are five species of prairie dogs (genus Cynomys): Black - Tailed Prairie Dog (C. ludovicianus) occupies narrow bands of dry plains stretching from central Texans to Canada.

Andean flamingo Ashy storm petrel Bald eagle Bicknell's thrush Black - backed woodpecker Black - breasted puffleg Black - capped petrel Blue - billed curassow Brown - banded antpitta Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl California condor California spotted owl Cape Sable seaside sparrow Cauca guan Chatham petrel Chilean woodstar Coastal California gnatcatcher Desert nesting bald eagle Eastern brown pelican Esmeraldas woodstar Fiji petrel Galápagos petrel Hawaiian petrel Heinroth's shearwater «I «iwi Inyo California towhee Kittlitz's murrelet Least Bell's vireo Lesser prairie chicken Magenta petrel Marbled murrelet Medium tree finch Mexican spotted owl Mono Basin area greater sage grouse Newell's shearwater Northern goshawk Northern spotted owl Okinawa woodpecker Penguins Piping plover Queen Charlotte goshawk Rota bridled white - eye Southwestern willow flycatcher Spectacled eider St. Lucia forest thrush Steller's eider Tricolored blackbird Western burrowing owl Western gull - billed tern Western snowy plover White - tailed ptarmigan Xantus's murrelet Yellow - billed cuckoo Yellow - billed loon

The white - tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii), also known as the prairie hare or simply, white jack, was photographed in Calgary's Queen's Park Cemetery by regular contributor Tony LePrieur.

Also known as a prairie hare or white jack, the white - tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) is a generally solitary hare wonderfully designed for speed.