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Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Photo by Mark Harper
Location: Eastern Colorado

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

United States

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Grasses

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Diet includes insects, seeds, and leaves, catkins, and buds of forbs (broad-leaved plants) and cultivated crops.

[edit] Breeding

Females scratch shallow, bowl-shaped depressions in the soil and line them with dried grasses, leaves, and feathers to serve as nests.

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