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A 1937 study recorded about 8,700 Attwater's prairie-chickens remaining in four Texas counties. Attwater's prairie-chicken has been on the endangered species list since March 1967 when an estimated 1,070 birds were left in the wild. [11] By 2003, fewer than 50 birds remained in the wild.
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 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.
The freeze-free growing season is often over 320 days compared to 250–260 days along the northern Texas coastal area of the Northern Humid Gulf Coastal Prairies (34a). Along with the Lower Rio Grande Alluvial Floodplain (34f), the Lower Rio Grande Valley contains important nesting grounds for the white-winged dove, a favored hunting species ...
Attwater's prairie-chicken; Axolotl; B. Beautiful mantella; Big-eared hopping mouse; Black-eared mantella; Black-fronted parakeet; Bog turtle; Bridled nail-tail wallaby;
The Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a major preserve created for the protection of the endangered Attwater's prairie chicken. The loops of the Lower Coast feature a variety of snowbirds from Canada and the northern U.S. which winter in the region. [12]
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