Critters
May 23, 2023
In Pursuit of Texas’s Rarest Bird, the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken
Fewer than 200 of the birds remain in the wild. Every spring, they put on a vibrant mating display.
Fewer than 200 of the birds remain in the wild. Every spring, they put on a vibrant mating display.
A pair of Austin birders think it’s time to replace the Northern mockingbird with something more . . . Texas-y.
The prairie chickens in Texas’ vanishing grasslands are booming and boyish.