Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Habitats: Prairie
Learn what prairies are, about the plants and wildlife that live there, and about the environmental efforts being made to restore them.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Threatened and Endangered
This site provides detailed descriptions and factual information on Wisconsin's Threatened and Endangered animals and plants.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals
This site from the Evergreen Project of the Missouri Botanical Garden provides great information. Click on the animal link on the left. There is an introduction to animals in the grasslands, and then you can read more about each...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Grassland Animals
This site from the Missouri Botanical Garden provides animal descriptions of several grassland animals. Content includes pictures, fact sheets, and more.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Greater Prairie Chicken
An abundance of facts, photos, and sounds of the Greater Prairie-Chicken are featured on this detailed site. Listen to the sounds of this bird species on this site as well.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Species With Status: Threatened
A threatened species is an official designation for a species that is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. Some examples of threatened species in Wisconsin are...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Greater Prairie Chicken
The greater prairie-chicken almost died out and only small pockets of them survive now in the United States. This page explains the difficulties they faced from disturbances to their habitat.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Animal Species Profile: Greater Prairie Chicken
Illustrated profile of the greater prairie chicken.