Keyword: Attwater's prairie-chickens
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APC005-00021
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00022
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00012
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00013
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00014
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00015
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00016
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00017
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00018
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00019
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00020
A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), also known as the greater prairie chicken, at the San Antonio Zoo.
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APC005-00005
An endangered Attwater’s prairie-chicken over one of its last booming grounds in Texas’ coastal prairie.
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APC005-00006
Attwater’s prairie-chicken (Endangered under the Federal ESA) at the Houston Zoo.
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APC005-00004
The nest of a captive female Attwater’s prairie-chicken (endangered.) Few of these eggs will hatch, and few of the surviving chicks will make it to adulthood.
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APC005-00003
Endangered Attwater’s prairie chickens mate, giving their species one more chance for survival. (Near Texas City, TX.)
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APC005-00002
A male Attwater’s prairie-chicken watches the sky for predators. The endangered birds depend on native coastal prairiegrasses for food and a place to hide from predators.
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APC005-00001
The endangered Attwater’s prairie-chicken needs short grass to see other members of its species as well as predators. Biologists rotate cattle grazing to simulate the bison that once kept the prairie trimmed.
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ANI027-00001
Predators like this rat snake make for a long, tense incubating period for endangered Attwater’s prairie-chickens. Many of the few nests in the wild are destroyed before the eggs hatch.
