An
upland sandpiper carved by acclaimed woodcarver Harold Haertel perches among a host of carved birds.
By 2050, hotter conditions may trigger declines in grassland birds that breed there in summer, such as
upland sandpiper, horned lark, and burrowing owl.
The program has also been successful at creating habitat for many other species, including white-tailed deer, wild turkey, badger, eastern bluebird, snowshoe hare,
upland sandpiper, indigo bunting, and brown-thrasher.
Less common grassland species, from most to least common, were sedge wren (Cistothorus platensis),
upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), dickcissel (Spiza americana), horned lark (Eremophila alpestris), vesper sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) and western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta).
According to Bill Glass, the ecologist for the prairie, "Illinois's Department of Natural Resources found a number of threatened species of birds there," including the
upland sandpiper, the bobolink and the loggerhead shrike.
Species on the sensitive list include the Oregon spotted frog, painted turtle,
upland sandpiper and purple martin.
For example, the grassland nesting birds of highest management concern based on our ranks were the Henslow's sparrow, dickcissel (Spiza americana), and
upland sandpiper (Table 2).
The bird-loving buddies were hoping to record exotic species like the Yellow-browed Warbler, the
Upland Sandpiper and the Snow bunting.
All of which meant that building the complex would result in the permanent loss of a large wetland area, threatening habitat used by many bird species, among them the state endangered
Upland Sandpiper.
The three species that we modeled to settle randomly,
upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii) and eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna), had positive relationships between occurrence and field size when a complete census or proportional sampling was used, and therefore, would have been considered area sensitive by the methods used by some previous authors.
While turkeys are now common in New York State,
upland sandpiper populations are falling as the grassland habitat they depend upon disappears.
In all years, we attempted to completely census breeding birds listed as endangered in Illinois (northern harrier,
upland sandpiper, Henslow's sparrow;
upland sandpiper - large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands