Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution

Hardcover in fine condition. Dust jacket with minor chips. Color plates. B & W illustrations.

This book is the first to describe systematically all of the species of birds known to have bred or to breed in the Great Plains, a major ecological unit that encompasses all or part of eleven states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Although the original Great Plains ecosystem (the grassland biome) has been greatly altered by modern agriculture, remnants still exist in national and state parks, grasslands, and refuges, as well as in rural cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, and nature reserves. These areas support populations of nearly all the original and introduced birdlife of the Great Plains.