North Dakota
Birds
Fish
Mammals
Plants
100
act of Congress to help species in danger of extinction
What is the Endangered Species Act?
100
tallest bird in North America
What is the whooping crane?
100
type of sturgeon endangered in North Dakota
What is the pallid sturgeon?
100
have 50-100 square mile range
What is the gray wolf?
100
3 feet high
What is the height of the Western Fringed Orchid?
200
species which are in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of their range
What is an endangered species?
200
these birds mate for life and use the same nest year after year
What is the bald eagle?
200
two rivers where pallid sturgeon can be found
What are the Missouri and the Yellowstone?
200
last known wild population was in Wyoming in 1981
What is the black-footed ferret?
200
mid-June to late July
What is its flowering time-frame?
300
species likely to become endangered in the future
What is a threatened species?
300
nest on barren, rocky sandbars
What is the piping plover?
300
introduction of dams & bank stabilization, increased water velocity, decreased water temperatures
What are reasons the pallid sturgeon population has decreased?
300
90% of its diet are prairie dogs
What is the black footed ferret?
300
burning, grazing, mowing, contaminated water sources
What are the reasons for the Western Prairie Fringed Orchid to be put on the threatened list?
400
administers the law for all endangered and threatened wildlife in the state of North Dakota
What is the US Fish & Wildlife Service?
400
in the 1940s there were only 21 left in the world
What is the whooping crane?
400
50 years
What is the age a pallid sturgeon can live to?
400
has the greatest distribution than any other mammal (except humans)
What is a gray wolf?
400
flowers are feathered on the edges
Why are they named the Western Prairie Fringed Orchid?
500
Bismarck, ND
What is the location of the ND Game & Fish Department, state office?
500
migrate large distances
What are the whooping crane and the piping plover?
500
brown in color, not grayish white
What is a shovel nose sturgeon?
500
don't breed until three years old
What is a gray wolf?
500
Minnesota & Manitoba
Where are the other 2 of the 3 remaining populations found in the world?
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