Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...

Those predators will also snack on grassland nesting birds like the long-billed curlew. To protect themselves, the curlews eavesdrop on the alarms coming from prairie dog colonies, according to ...

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A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

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Public invited to a learning center hike & lunch Prairie Lakes Audubon Chapter is inviting the community to join in on a walk to explore the trails and find birds at the Prairie Wetlands Learning ...

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Tall grasses can progress from lush green to brown as summer turns to fall, and eventually serve as fuel for wildfires.

“Prairie dogs are on the menu for just about every predator you can think of”— golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, foxes, badgers, even large snakes — said Andy Boyce, a research ecologist in Montana at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air ...