Nesting In South Dakota

“There are 3,000 ranchers growing around 300,000 ostriches in several states like Texas, California, Arizona, Indiana, and Illinois.” (Watson, “Ostrich Farming Grows in Popularity”) This was stated by Mac Young, the executive director of the American Ostrich Association; it shows that multiple ostriches are on farms, and that it is very common in some states.

burrow with grasses, feathers, and other natural resources. The owl can lay up to eleven eggs, but usually

Mourning Doves lives in many places, and they are easy to find. The Mourning Dove lives all around North America the northern doves you have probably seen or heard before. Their habitat is in your backyard, the woods, even when nesting they have nest in high trees or on people's roofs on, perches, anywhere humans are they love. When migrating some stayin high trees in holes in trees mostly oak and maple.

Habitat: Their habitats are on crops, arable and waste land, gardens. Commonly on footpaths and in

The wetlands of spring welcomes migrating shorebird species, including sandpipers, stilts, plovers, dunlins, curlews, and avocets. The colors of summer come alive with an array of birds atop trees with beautiful sounds filling the air. These include black-chinned, calliope, broad-tailed, red-tailed hawk, white-crowned sparrow, tanager and rufous hummingbird. Cranes and geese make their appearance in early fall, coyotes, northern shovelers dabble on the water, javelina, and mule deer idle or prance about in the open meadow, and wild turkeys trek in their roosting

The State of Texas had drawn too much water from the rivers that lead to the Aransas Refuge, reducing the food supply for whooping cranes. The Aransas Project, a group of citizens and businesses, filed a lawsuit against Texas for permitting too much water to be taken. The trial judge had agreed with The Aransas Project, but the court’s decision was overturned on appeal. Following this, The Aransas Project requested that the United States Supreme Court hear their case, but was denied. Prior to the denial, Nature Canada had filed the Friend of the Court brief on the side of The Aransas Project, mentioning the Migratory Bird Treaty, 1918. Under the Migratory Bird Treaty, both Canada and the United States have an obligation to protect migratory birds. Part of this responsibility is ensuring that the Aransas Refuge has enough water to sustain the whooping crane population, which Texas had failed to do. Additionally, the flock of whooping cranes that winters in Texas’ Aransas Refuge is the same flock that breeds in the summer in Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, making this an international issue. Deaths of whooping cranes in the Aransas Refuge greatly affects the well-being of these cranes when they return to breed in Wood Buffalo, and also counteracts the successful conservation efforts Canada has

To determine the migratory patterns and population patterns of the Barn Swallow, I examined different charts provided by the BPP website that allow me to examine the population numbers of Barn Swallows in different parts of North America during their mating seasons. According to the information provided by the BPP website, Barn Swallows have a tendency to live closer to areas that have a higher amount of water. This means that they nest in areas where the climate is more damp. Barn Swallows make their nests out of mud and twigs which makes it necessary for them to live in areas where the environment has more rain or is damper so that they can use the mud to create their nests. The information provided by the BPP clearly shows this due to the fact that throughout the years, larger populations of Barn Swallows are shown to be along the eastern coast and the Great

The scaup nests in habitats of the Boreal Forests that spread into Alaska and into parts of Manitoba. Being one of the latest fall migrants of all waterfowl, scaup tend to migrate after freeze-up and settle on rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Throughout fall and winter the scaup primarily consume aquatic species. Due to their late migration scaup can be seen moving in flocks through Central Flyway Region in mid-May (Austin et al 1998). Forming new pair of bonds annually during spring migration every year they are considered a serial-monogamous species. Scaup tend to nest later in May through June. Unlike other diving ducks female scaup build their nests on the ground near or over water, and into parts of upland areas. Depending on female age, predation, and water conditions these variables will correlate with nest success (Austin et al

They start investigating this method by choosing the Hartford Country in Connecticut. They also kept in touch on which hawks they would like to investigate, around 11 Red tailed hawks are radioed bugged and kept in surveillance by the research group. They took pictures of the area to mark

The adult Great Blue Heron is a blue-gray color. They have a black stripe above their yellow eyes. The stripe extends to the back of the neck turning into a plume of feathers like a ponytail. They have gray, shaggy neck feathers with streaks of white, black, and rust-brown. They

From this short article “Keeping Clapper Rails High and Dry”, Grable talks about the Western Ecological Research Center, or so-called WERC, building some man-made “islands” for clapper rails to temporarily live in. WERC took action due to the high tides that can flood the clapper rails’ habitats, which can leave them with nowhere to go and vulnerable to the increased number of non-native predators, like red foxes. These “islands” are made of plastic and are wrapped with palm tree leaves, with grass on top of them. clapper rails can live and even nest on these “islands”, like one pair according to the article. “...one pair of rails took advantage of the high and dry island to build a nest and fledge at least three chicks” (Grable). This source

2) Using the eBird website, I was able to determine the seasonal geographic distribution of the Lark Bunting. December through January, which is winter for those in North America, the Bunting is located in the southwestern United States. It resides in areas located near Texas, Mexico, southern California, and New Mexico. May through July, which is generally summer, the Bunting is located in areas vastly different its winter destinations in that it can be found mainly in the central United States and southern Canada, but is seemingly spotted all over the western United States and, if one keeps their eyes peeled, a few north eastern states.

They are waiting for an opportunity to reclaim their lost kingdom, and they are willing to do whatever it takes. This gang of children is proud, strong, and tough far beyond their years. The Ospreys are symbolized by their namesake bird and the national symbol of their homeland Aecor. Ospreys circle high above water before diving in and plucking fish out, carrying their prey back to their homes (All About Birds: Osprey). This is reminiscent of the way the Osprey kids not only steal things, quickly and stealthily, but then carry them back to their home where they share the wealth.

Severely restricted inside the barren cages, the birds are unable to engage in nearly any of their natural habits, including nesting, perching, walking, dust bathing, foraging, or even spreading their wings” (HSUS, 2009).

Ornithologists have reported that there is a limited population of bald eagles in places like Vermont, Arizona, Rhode Island and Mexico. The Bald Eagle is somewhat of a hobo in the Caribbean Islands, Belize and Bermuda. There are rumors of sightings of the Bald Eagle in Northeastern Asia, Sweden, Greenland, Siberia and Ireland (Alderfer.)