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[12] [13] That harmed the prairie-chicken population at that location in the view of some organizations, including the Wildlife Society. [14] [15] The number of Attwater's prairie-chickens nesting on the land owned by the Conservancy fell from 36 in 1998 to 16 in 2003. [15] Attwater's prairie-chickens have since disappeared from the site. [12] Male
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a federally protected refugium encompassing one of the largest remnants of coastal prairie habitat remaining in southeast Texas, United States, and home to one of the last populations of critically endangered Attwater's prairie chickens, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem.
The Texas City Prairie Preserve is a 2,300-acre (9.3 km 2) nature preserve located on the shores of Moses Lake and Galveston Bay in Texas City, Texas in the United States, near Houston. The preserve was created in 1995 by the Nature Conservancy thanks to a $2.2 million donation of land by ExxonMobil .
The greater prairie-chicken was almost extinct in the 1930s due to hunting pressure and habitat loss. In Illinois alone, in the 1800s, the prairie-chicken numbered in the millions. It was a popular game bird, and like many prairie birds, which have also suffered massive habitat loss, it is now on the verge of extinction, with the wild bird ...
The center participates in a program to rehabilitate the Attwater's prairie chicken, a small grouse native of the coastal plains of Louisiana and Texas, now one of the most endangered bird species in America. Fossil Rim Wildlife Center and five other zoos initiated a breeding program for the species in 1992.
Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR: Attwater's greater prairie chicken: 8,007 Balcones Canyonlands NWR: Black-capped vireo, golden-cheeked warbler: 14,144 US Virgin Islands: Green Cay NWR: St. Croix ground lizard: 14 Sandy Point NWR: Leatherback sea turtle: 327 Virginia: James River NWR: Bald eagle: 4,147 Mason Neck NWR: Bald eagle: 2,276 Washington
Attwater's prairie-chicken; G. Greater prairie-chicken; L. Lesser prairie-chicken This page was last edited on 30 January 2015, at 19:00 (UTC). Text is available ...
A road sign for the trail system in Newton County [9]. The Texas coast has been popular among bird watchers in the United States for decades. [7] Located where the Central Flyway meets the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Flyway, the region sees a large number of migrants; in addition, the southern part of the Texas coast is far enough south to host a number of tropical species. [10]