Tag: nesting habitat

September 12, 2018

JWM: CRP critical for prairie-chickens — but not by itself

On the plains of western Kansas, Conservation Reserve Program lands, where crops have been replaced by native grasses, have proved crucial to lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). The threatened birds have...

December 18, 2017

WSB: Mobile app gathers plover data across vast range

The threatened piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nests on North American coastlines from Maine to North Carolina, where biologists fear it faces growing threats from rising sea levels associated with climate...