Ring-necked Pheasant parasitism of Lesser Prairie-Chicken nests in Kansas
We report observations of Ring-necked Pheasants ( Phasianus colchicus ) parasitizing Lesser Prairie-Chicken (T ympanuchus pallidicinctus ) nests in native sand sagebrush ( Artemisia filifolia ) rangeland in southwestern Kansas. We found low incidence of interspecific nest parasitism as only 3 of 75 prairie-chicken nests were parasitized. Two of the three parasitized clutches hatched, but no Ring-necked Pheasant chicks were known to have survived.
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