Prairie Chicken Festival in Wisconsin
Title: Prairie Chicken Festival in Wisconsin Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin Link out: Click here Description: Three-day festival events to observe and get close to prairie chickens. Noppadol Paothong will be a keynote speaker, speaking about his journey to...
Prairie Dancers – Featured Story in the BirdWatching Magazine
The April 2012 issue of the BirdWatching Magazine is featuring my article and images on where and when to go to watch the spectacular displays of grassland and sagebrush grouse in the spring.
Cover of the Journal of Wildlife Management
My Gunnison Sage-Grouse image is the cover of the February 2012 issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management.
2011 Audubon Magazine Photography Awards
I am excited to learn that two of my grouse images were selected for the 2011 Audubon Magazine Photography Awards: Top 100. They were selected out of thousands of images entered in this year’s contest....
North American Grassland Grouse
Grassland grouse once thrived on the Eastern seaboard (the extinct heath hen) to the Pacific coast (the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse). In between were three major species of grassland grouse (the prairie-chickens, the sage-grouse, and the sharp-tailed grouse). Those...
Species Profile: Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse
The Columbian sharp-tailed grouse is one of seven subspecies of sharp-tailed grouse in North America. Among these subspecies, Columbian sharp-tailed grouse are the smallest. Characteristics of Columbian sharp-tailed grouse are brownish-gray with many small buff and...
Exotic intruder, Fire Ants, hinders recovery of 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 death...
Fence collision deadly for Lesser Prairie Chickens
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...