Nov 30, 2011 | Attwater's Prairie Chicken
Around 1930, exotic fire ants arrived in Texas from South America. Since then, the population has spread quickly and has been devastating to ground-nesting birds, such as Attwater’s prairie chickens. Not only can their stings be extremely painful and cause the...
Nov 7, 2011 | Lesser Prairie Chicken
Lesser prairie chickens, like many ground-dwelling birds, have a short life expectancy with around 60% mortality. After years of studies, the George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center in Oklahoma reports that barbed-wire fences account for over 40% of the lesser...