
BIR023-00035
A vulnerable (IUCN) male lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) that was caught in a walk-in trap to be radio collared. Lesser prairie-chicken numbers have declined drastically all through their limited range in the Southern Great Plains in recent years. Biologists fear that this species could be lost without habitat improvement such as the marking of fences that the birds often hit in flight, as well as the restriction of wind turbine farms that cause major disruption to the bird.
Keywords
- Animal
- Biologist
- bird
- Captive
- Catch
- caught
- chicken
- Collar
- Grouse
- Lesser prairie chicken
- nature
- prairie-chicken
- Preserve
- protect
- radio
- rare
- Research
- threatened
- Track
- Trap
- Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
- vulnerable
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