Prairie chickens will not re nest if their nest is destroyed. When Konza Prairie and old Hudson Ranch lands burn every spring it destroys what nests were there and now fast forward thirty years no prairie chickens. That grass is natural Priaire and that is what birds need Brome grass is for haying to dense for birds to move through no crawl spaces. The Prairie was over burned.. they don’t burn in Lincoln county thus a very limited amount of small flock groups are still around but over east no so anymore..
Interesting, do you have the Lesser Prairie Chicken? We have the Greater up here, they are very good at renesting. Much better then our Pheasants, the males here will stay on the Lek breeding till at least mid June.
First cutting an Alfalfa can be really tough on a lot of nesting grouse, ducks and turkeys as it is usually close to the time that nests start hatching, its late enough that most birds won’t try renesting.
