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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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Have you ever seen a Greater Prairie Chicken? Cut down the virgin forest and lose the Orangutans or Spotted Owls or Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Destroy the native prairies and lose Henslow’s Sparrows , Bobolinks , Upland Sandpipers , and Greater Prairie Chickens. But birds and all animals need proper habitat.

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The Black Album: Black Birders, Blackpoll Warblers, Black-tailed Godwits, Black Flamingos, and more

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Props on the sweet Barred Owl call, too. “I Only you can help prevent three threatened Australian birds from permanently falling victim to sugar gliders, according to a crowdfunding campaign. Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? What kind of miscreant kicks a Barn Owl in mid-flight? No, you didn’t.

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