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Texas CARE: Southern Great Plains Region
 Includes 82 counties in the Texas Panhandle.
Habitat problems that are limiting factors for waterfowl and wildlife include:
1) conversion and/or degradation brought about by agricultural activities
and mineral exploration; 2) sedimentation of playa basins; 3) modification
of playa basins, such as the digging of irrigation pits; 4) agricultural
farming practices (planting right up to or through the playas); and 5) overgrazing.
The playas provide important winter habitat for mallards, northern pintails,
American wigeon, and green-winged teal. Winter populations can reach 4 million
ducks and 1 million geese (snows and Canada predominantly). In some years,
the playas winter up to 30% of the Central Flyway waterfowl, making the region
second in importance only to the Gulf Coast. The area also winters up to
90% of the mid-continent population of sandhill cranes. When wetlands are
flooded in spring, mallards, blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, redheads and
ruddy ducks produce broods in the playas. In addition, the playas provide
very important migration habitat for many species of shorebirds.
For more information, visit the Playa Lakes Joint Venture website.
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