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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 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.
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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]
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 .
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is a under-the-radar gem in Northern Florida. Located in Micanopy, the park has wild buffalo and horses, diverse ecosystems, hundreds of birds, and even more to ...
The McFaddin and Texas Point National Wildlife Refuges are located in proximity in southern Jefferson County on the upper Texas coast at Sabine Pass.The refuges have a combined 105.96 square miles (274.4 km 2) of fish and wildlife habitat.