What is a larger prairie chicken?

Larger prairie chicken is an unusual and increasingly rare bird, originally from the American plains in the Midwest. Remarkable for surprising flashes of colors and its serious pairing dance, Greater Prairie Chicken has many admirers and friends between the world of birding. Reduction and hunting of habitats caused considerable damage to the wild population of these birds; Several subspecies are extinct or critically threatened, and the International Union for the preservation of nature and natural resources (IUCN) has said that the type vulnerable to the extinction in 2008 is recorded by the continuing population trend. Patterned in masking brown and white is also a male bird on each side of the neck also bright orange air bags, which are inflated as part of mating or ritual. Female birds are brown more evenly. During the mating season, several men can dance in the same area and hope to attract a friend from nearby women. During the dance, a bird of hops or stagger around, keeps his head low, inflates his feathers on his head and repeatedly nAfries the orange neck. Dance is accompanied by songs; The male performs a soft, low hooting call.

Prairie Chickens will have in March and April with eggs will hatch in about three weeks. Before hatching, they face their nests of several dangers from competing species and the environment. The nests are built on the ground, so they are vulnerable to commonly strong spring rains on prairies. Reduction of habitats led to another threat; Sometimes pheasants put their faster hatching of the egg into a comfortable chicken nest, which leads to a chicker, believes that the young have already hatched and thus neglected the nest.

These once large birds are now narrowed to a far small area. While their range once flourished in more than 20 countries, the larger prairie now exists only in irregular settlements in northern and southern Dakota, Nebrasce and Kansas, with residual populations in Texas, Minnesota and Illinois. Heath Hen, subspecies of biggerThe prairie chicken, which lived along the Atlantic coast, was declared extinct in 1932. With the population that continued to descend, some environmental experts believe that in the coming years they will maintain a viable population in the coming years.