Nebraska Bird Partnership

If you're from eastern Nebraska, visit the Greater Prairie-Chicken Survey page to learn more about volunteering to run a lek survey route or two this April. No prior bird or other survey experience is necessary; you only need reliable transportation, average or better hearing, willingness to get up early in the morning (the early bird gets the worm, you know), and an interest in wildlife.

We will conduct these surveys only in April 2010, so you would not be making a long-term commitment.

Each route is twenty miles long and will be surveyed only once. You'll stop about every one mile (20 total stops) and get out of your car for two minutes to listen and scan for prairie-chicken lek activity. If you've never been to a lek, we'll teach you what you need to know. A route will take about an hour to complete, not including your travel time to and from your home.

To see route locations, visit the Greater Prairie-Chicken Survey page.

The Nebraska Bird Partnership cooperated with the Great Plains GIS Partnership, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, and Northern Prairies Land Trust to develop a model to predict where Greater Prairie-Chickens occur in eastern Nebraska. The data collected in these surveys will be used to evaluate how accurate the model's predictions are.