GREAT PLAINS BIODIVERSITY -

A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer 

Last updated: 8 May 2008

LINK TO: 26 February Prairie Falcon / 12 May 2007 - Kansas Stilt-legged Flies / 13 May 2007 - Kansas Diptera / 29 May - Illinois Scorpionflies /  15 Sept. 2007 - Giant Swallowtail Caterpillars in our yard  /

Right above: A prairie falcon in late evening sun.  Wichita: Sim Park Golf Course, Sedgwick Co., KS, Feb. 26, 2007.

2006 LINKS:

LINK TO: NINNESCAH RIVER MAY 2006 /  ARKANSAS RIVER MAY 2006  / SEDGWICK COUNTY JUNE 2, 2006 / SEDGWICK COUNTY JUNE 4, 2006 / JUNE 5 2006 / JUNE 9 2006 / JUNE 13 2006 / JUNE 14 2006 / June 15 2006 / June 16 2006 / Konza Prairie July 15, 2006 / Sedgwick County 18 July 2006 / 20 August 2006 / 23 August 2006 /

Right: A yellow-headed blackbird, Quivira NWR, Stafford Co., KS, May 19, 2006 - More photos - LINK HERE

Photos of Roy Beckemeyer and his Yellow Lab, Joe, taken at Quivira NWR by Joseph Hall of Tulsa, OK - MeAndJoe.html

Left: A Common Snipe that I saw nearly every day on the Arkansas River near Sim Park in Wichita beginning in mid January and extending through mid February, when a hard freeze set in for several days.  The bird was seen almost daily, always feeding in a very shallow mud-bottomed stretch of the river.  This photo taken Feb. 15, 2006.  I have been walking my dog along the bike path past the river here for 8 years or so, and this is the first time I have seen this species here in the winter.

Right: An Upland Sandpiper photographed in Ellsworth County, Kansas, 27 April, 2004 by Roy Beckemeyer along a road west of Kanopolis Reservoir.  Nikon 500 mm lens and D-100 Digital camera body, from window of car.  This fellow was flying up onto fence posts and doing his wolf whistle call in response to other calling and displaying birds.

LINKS:

• ORNITHOLOGY & BIRD WATCHING Last updated 27 April, 2004
• RIVER ECOLOGY Last updated 27 January 2004

The following GREAT PLAINS BIODIVERSITY LINKS cover fauna & flora other than those already provided in my pages on insects, birds, and prairie and river ecology:

• The Status of Biodiversity in The Great Plains - The Nature Conservancy
• Great Plains Nature Center - Wichita 
• The Center for North American Herpetology (J. Collins)
• Kansas Herpetological Society
• The Oklahoma Herpetology Page
• Northern Prairie Science Center: Reptiles & Amphibians of North Dakota
• Fishes of North Dakota
• Small Mammals of North Dakota
• A Checklist of Manitoba Spiders
• Geograpic Distribution of Land Mammals in Texas
• FAUNMAP - Late Quaternary Distributions of Mammals - Illinois State Museum
• Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory
• Nebraska Natural Heritage Program
• North Dakota Natural Heritage Program
• Kansas Natural Heritage Program
• Kansas Biological Survey
• Photo Right, Above:  Roy Beckemeyer at the Chaplin Nature Center BioBlitz, Sept. 2004.  Almost 170 species of invertebrate species were counted in the 24 hour activity.  See these links for information on the Nature Center (Property of the Wichita Audubon Society):  Kansas Nature-Based Tourism Alliance Page on Chaplin  /  Chaplin Nature Center Web Page     

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