WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Tympanuchus spp. | Prairie-Chickens 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Prairie-chicken ditribution is listed below [11]:

     T. cupido ssp. cupido - formerly along the East Coast, from
                             Massachusetts south to Maryland and inland
                             to north-central Tennessee
     T. c. ssp. pinnatus - in small isolated populations in Michigan,
                           Wisconsin, Illinois, northwestern Minnesota,
                           eastern North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
                           Kansas, Missouri, and northern Oklahoma
     T. c. ssp. attwateri - Texas Coastal Plain
     T. pallidicinctus - southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas
                         through western Oklahoma, eastern New Mexico,
                         and the Texas Panhandle


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie


STATES : 


    
CO
    
IL
    
KS
    
MI
    
MN
    
MO
    
NE
    
NM
    
ND
    
OK


	
SD
    
TX
    
WI
    

    

    

    

    

    

    





BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K054  Grama - tobosa prairie
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem - grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K084  Cross Timbers
   K088  Fayette prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    1  Jack pine
   16  Aspen


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Lesser prairie-chickens inhabit the arid grasslands of New Mexico,
Colorado, and Texas [11,20,22].  Plant communities include sand
sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia)-little bluestem (Schizachyrium
scoparium) types with sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus), purple
threeawn (Aristida purpurea), and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum).
Lesser prairie-chickens also inhabit shin oak (Quercus havardii)-big
bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) types.  Greater prairie-chickens inhabit
climax grasslands of the eastern Great Plains [5,11].  These prairies
are dominated by big and little bluestem, indiangrass (Sorghastrum
nutans), and switchgrass (Panicum spp.).  Oak (Quercus spp.)-hickory
(Carya spp.) forests may have once been used by greater prairie-chickens
[11].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Tympanuchus spp. | Prairie-Chickens