Post by Woody Williams on Jun 25, 2006 12:02:59 GMT -5
Keep off the grass, urge pheasant, quail groups
By JUDY DAVIS
Courier & Press staff writer 464-7593 or jdavis@evansville.net
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Even though our roads and highways are about to start looking a bit ragged, it's time to stop mowing along and in road ditches.
With urban sprawl and intensified farming, grassland nesting birds need the grassy corridors more and more for nesting, brood rearing and escape cover.
Nesting adults are reluctant to leave the nest, even when a tractor or mower is bearing down on them.
A wildlife research study on pheasants found that more than 70 percent of all hens killed or injured on the nest were hit between June 10 and July 1.
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever encourage landowners to keep off the tall grass until Aug. 1.
By JUDY DAVIS
Courier & Press staff writer 464-7593 or jdavis@evansville.net
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Even though our roads and highways are about to start looking a bit ragged, it's time to stop mowing along and in road ditches.
With urban sprawl and intensified farming, grassland nesting birds need the grassy corridors more and more for nesting, brood rearing and escape cover.
Nesting adults are reluctant to leave the nest, even when a tractor or mower is bearing down on them.
A wildlife research study on pheasants found that more than 70 percent of all hens killed or injured on the nest were hit between June 10 and July 1.
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever encourage landowners to keep off the tall grass until Aug. 1.
