Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers

Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers — page 5
N O S L U A P E L A D F O Y S E T R U O C O T O H P Meet Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom The booming call is the male prairie chicken’s mating song In the early spring dawn the males boom to attract the attention of the females Their booming call makes a deep haunting sound like that of a tympani drum in an orchestra Some people describe the booming call as one of the most fantastic sounds in the natural world This male prairie chicken’s neck feathers called pinnae are raised over his head to attract the female birds A long time ago thousands of prairie chickens lived in Wisconsin But as cities grew the prairie chickens lost their nesting grounds By 1850 the prairie chicken population began to decrease In the 1950s only about 2,500 prairie chickens still lived in Wisconsin But 2 scientists helped to save them Those scientists were Frances Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom tympani tim puh nee one of a set of 2 or 3 large drums that are played by one performer in an orchestra pinnae pin I 2