Not near as hard on them as all the hawks and eagles are.
100 percent right.
The foxes and coyotes get too bad a rap for this.
Mostly rodents.
The Cornell Ornithology website lays most of the blame for nest losses on foxes, weasels and mink. Raptor predation becoming the major source of mortality in winter.
Apparently territorial male ring necks harass and drive out prairie chickens during the breeding season.
