Extinct

Ive lived in Rainy River District for the last 35 yrs. The village with the black machine guns is Barwick. We have a lot of Sharptail Grouse. Limit is 5 a day, possesion of 15. Not my favorite eating grouse..dark meat. Prefer to eat Ruff Grouse.
 
mveniot said:
The village with the black machine guns is Barwick.
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Thank You for that mveniot . I may be out that way this summer and would like to get pics . After WW1 they decided to start a reserve unit out that way . My grandfather was the justice of the peace , the reeve , head of the school board , head of the department of highways , had the powder magazine on his property and was a farmer . The army showed up and asked him to store two machine guns .. and they never got back to him and the reserve unit was never started . Years later the legion decided to build the memorial and they asked him to donate the machine guns . Somebody welded them and they were put in cement . I don't know when the memorial was built but up until that time the guns were live and the army never came back for them .
 
atr said:
Got thinking about this last night and much to my surprise the internet tells me that Prairie Chickens have long been extinct in that area . Hmmm ... Anybody else ever see a Prairie Chicken and particularly where they're supposed to be extinct or any other "out of place" animal ?
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The term you're looking for is 'extirpated', not 'extinct'.
 
Prairie chickens and sage grouse are different species. Sage grouse are also declining in numbers and habitat too but not to the extent of the greater prairie chicken.


the spank said:
I was listening to a radio show one morning a few months back. They were interviewing an Alberta biologist who was talking about the few known pockets left in AB still holding Prairie Chickens aka Sage Grouse. It was a very intereseting show.
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Prairie chicken is a generic name used by lots of people to identify many different upland game birds in Western Canada. Just because somebody said it was a Prairie Chicken doesn't make it a Prairie Chicken
You can ask any native New Brunswicker if NB has any Partridge and you'll hear that there are tons of them everywhere, there really aren't but the locals call Ruffed Grouse a partridge and often don't realize they aren't really partridge, but thats what everybody calls them. Same kind of thing in Western Canada, lots of game birds get identified as Prairie Chickens and that's just what they are called, actual species plays no part in the local naming.
 
We have some sharp tails approx. 140 km north of Thunder Bay, they hang around the open cuts. I saw them in that area a few years back, even bagged a couple.
 
There was also sharptails on Manitoulin Island back in my Grandpa's time but they called them Prairie Chickens...............Harold
 
atr said:
Thank You for that mveniot . I may be out that way this summer and would like to get pics . After WW1 they decided to start a reserve unit out that way . My grandfather was the justice of the peace , the reeve , head of the school board , head of the department of highways , had the powder magazine on his property and was a farmer . The army showed up and asked him to store two machine guns .. and they never got back to him and the reserve unit was never started . Years later the legion decided to build the memorial and they asked him to donate the machine guns . Somebody welded them and they were put in cement . I don't know when the memorial was built but up until that time the guns were live and the army never came back for them .
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How very interesting...thanks for the information. maybe some day you could tell me your grandfathers name. next time I go by the memorial, im going to stop and see what it says for dedication. also in Barwick is a museum. if you are ever in the area it a neat visit.
 
mbogo3 said:
There was also sharptails on Manitoulin Island back in my Grandpa's time but they called them Prairie Chickens...............Harold
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There are still Sharptail Grouse on Manitoulin. See them off Hwy 540 near the north end of the Billings stretch on the west side where a farmer feeds big hay bales to his cattle. People do call them Prairie Chicken.
 
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