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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 9, 2020
Caption: The Missouri Coteau - North America's Duck Factory. Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom center) North America's Duck Factory map insert; Spraque's pipit; The Missouri Coteau region runs northwest to southeast from Saskatchewan through Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota. It is an area of prime importance to waterfowl within North America's Prairie Pothole Region, Historically, the Coteau was composed of mixed-grass prairie dominated by wheatgrass, little bluestem, and needlegrass. Today, only about 32 percent of the original mixed=grass prairie remains. Although prairie can be restored, once it has been cultivated it is no longer "native" prairie.; (middle right) Whooping crane; Piping plover; Besides waterfowl, the Missouri Coteau also provides habitat for rare grassland-dependent bird species like long-billed curlews, Spraque's pipits, chestnut-collared longspurs, and Le Conte's and Baird's sparrows, as well as threatened and endangered species like pipping plovers and whooping cranes.; (bottom right) The Missouri Coteau is known for its large concentrations of waterfowl.
Submitted: December 21, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p558597
File Size: 3.278 Megabytes

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