beneficial management practices for saskatchewan species at risk: sprague’s pipit threatened
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Beneficial Management Practices for Saskatchewan
Species at Risk:
Sprague’s Pipit Threatened
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• Olive-tan upperparts streaked with black & buff
• Whitish or buff under-parts with dark streaks
• White outer tail feathers
• Dark eyes and thin, pale-colored bill, legs & feet
• Call of descending notesKim Dohms
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• Prefer native prairie with vegetation of intermediate height and sparse to intermediate density
• Can be found in tame grasslands
• Avoid areas with extensive tree or shrub cover
• Ground-feeder; eats a variety of insects (i.e. grasshoppers and beetles)
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• Located in the southern portion of the province
• Status: Threatened
• Declined due habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation, pesticides and drought
• Estimated at 300,000 birds but exact number is unknown
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Beneficial Management Practices
Habitat Size
• Retain fragments of native prairie in patches of 160 acres (65 ha) or more
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Grazing
• Moderate grazing is most beneficial in the Aspen Parkland ecoregion
• Low to moderate grazing is most beneficial in the Moist Mixedgrassland ecoregion
• Low grazing is most beneficial in the Dry or Semi-Arid Mixedgrassland ecoregion
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Woody Vegetation
• Do not plant trees or shrubs on or within 100m of native or tame grassland
• Reduce or remove woody vegetation in native or tame grassland
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Converting Cropland to Perennial Cover
• Convert cultivated land to perennial cover
• Seed a grass mix that includes a prostrate form of legume (i.e. cicer milk vetch, trefoil or purple prairie clover)
• Seed finer grasses in forage mixes such as native grasses, Kentucky bluegrass or meadow brome
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Converting Cropland (cont’d)
• Seed herbaceous species that grow well in a stand with other species
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Invasive Alien Plant Species
• Manage invasion of exotic species in native grasslands that do not harm native herbaceous vegetation
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Forage Harvesting
• Delay harvesting of tame hay until after July 15th
• Mowed tame hayfields are better habitat than fields left idle for more than one to two years
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Roads
• Avoid constructing built-up roads
• Re-vegetate linear developments with native or fine, mid-height tame vegetation