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Booming from the Mists of Nowhere: The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken

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Booming from the Mists of Nowhere: The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken - Hoch, Greg
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For ten months of the year, the prairie-chicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of females, males gather before dawn in an explosion of sights and sounds--"booming from the mists of nowhere," as Aldo Leopold wrote decades ago. There's nothing else like it, and it is perilously close to being lost. In this book, ecologist Greg Hoch shows that we can ...

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Booming from the Mists of Nowhere: The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken 2015, University of Iowa Press, Iowa

ISBN-13: 9781609383879

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