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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
In 1968, Attwater Prairie Chicken Preserve was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service. [ 1 ] In the mid-1960s, the World Wildlife Fund purchased 3,500 acres (14 km 2 ) of land to preserve some remaining coastal prairie for Attwater's Prairie Chicken.
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 or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, [2] is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare and extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss . [ 2 ]
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.
It passes alongside the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, which shelters one of the last populations of the critically endangered Attwater's prairie-chicken, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem. The San Bernard River is one of a small number of rivers in Texas which empties directly into the Gulf. [1]
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
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