Sharp-tailed Grouse Segment at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on Oregon Field Guide on Thursday, May 05, 2011

Tune into Oregon Public Broadcasting (channel 10) Thursday May 5 at 8:30 p.m. to view an interesting segment about a 20-year effort to preserve and protect the Sharp-tailed Grouse in Eastern Oregon. Backyard Bird Shop is proud to be a sponsor of this segment of Oregon Field Guide. This segment will air again this week, on Sunday May 8th at 6:30 p.m.

When Oregon Field Guide first visited eastern Oregon 20 years ago to learn about the reintroduction of sharp-tailed grouse, things were looking good. But now the birds are in trouble, and biologists can only hope that some newly restored prairie might be enough to keep them from vanishing once again.  See a preview here.

Backyard Bird Shop will also sponsor upcoming Oregon Field Guide Segments:  segments on the “Falcon Comeback” and “Lewis’s Woodpeckers” air May 12th and 15th, and the “White-nose Syndrome in Bats” airing June 16th and 19th.