#booming

Heather blooming on Stanton Moor, Derbyshire

Mad Rat Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤🐀☠

gif one: 3 speakers bumping to the beat of an unknown song

gif two: two pale hands showing off a set of antique surgical tools

gif three: a plus sized person in red plaid pants and black tank top dancing

gif four: the bottom of a bright green frog. its belly is transparent and uts heart is beating quickly

gif five: Mad Rat from Mad Rat dead doing 2 peace signs excitedly

gif six: an x-ray of someones chest, their heart is beating

gif seven: a person with very long, dark hair in a black and white checkered tube top and pink and yellow booty shorts dancing out in public

gif eight: someone using a magnetic stick to attach the blade of a scalpel to the handle

A National Chicken Month Feathursday

September is National Chicken Month! What a great opportunity to celebrate these beautiful birds. Today we’re sharing Strictly for the Chickens by Frances Hamerstrom, published by Iowa State University Press in 1980. The book tells the story of Frances and her husband Frederick’s work to study and conserve the Greater Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin. Frances and Frederick were inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame in 1996. 

The Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) is technically a kind of Grouse, but we’re going with it since “Chicken” is in the name! Frances and Frederick Hamerstrom moved to the middle of Wisconsin in the 1930s to study the Prairie Chicken and by 1950 their research was “flourishing to the extent that they needed outside help to collect data during the ‘booming’ [mating] season” (back dust jacket flap). The Prairie Chicken was in danger of extinction when they began their research and conservation work and “Today, over 30,000 acres are managed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as greater prairie chicken habitat. Birdwatchers travel from around the world to visit Wisconsin in April for the Central Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Festival, started in 2006 by Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council, Inc.” (Wikipedia). 

View more posts about Prairie Chickens. 

View more Feathursday posts.