Thursday, October 14, 2010

Endangered Bird Species

Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Chester A. Reed, The Bird Book, 1914

Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Chester A. Reed

The last confirmed sightings, until February of 2004, were in 1972 in East Texas and Lousiana and in Cuba in 1986. Deforestation caused its decline as each pair required at least ten square miles of low-land hardwood forests.



Attwater's Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido attwateri,  E..R..Kalmbach,  Knowing Birds Through Stories, Floyd Bralliar, 1922

Attwater's Greater Prairie Chicken,

Tympanuchus cupido attwateri E..R..Kalmbach

The Greater Prairie Chicken was designated endangered in Texas in 1967. Nests in slight, grass lined hollows in the soil sheltered by grass tufts in open coastal grasslands, which have been reduced through cultivation and grazing.






Bar-tailed Pheasant, Syrmaticus humaie, Henrik Gronvold

Bar-tailed Pheasant Syrmaticus humaie, Henrik Gronvold




Cheer Pheasant  Catreus wallichii, Henrik Gronvold

Cheer Pheasant Catreus wallichii, Henrik Gronvold

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