Adopt-A-Prairie-Chicken

If you are a supporter of the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken, you cannot make a more effective donation than symbolically adopting an Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken. Every penny of your donation goes directly to organizations that propagate this endangered grouse and every penny must be used on propagation efforts.

Currently, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (Glenn Rose, Texas), Sutton Avian Research Center (Bartlesville, OK), Caldwell Zoo (Tyler, Texas), and the Houston Zoo are propagating Attwater’s Prairie-Chickens. Newly hatched chicks are transported to the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas and to  private lands in Goliad County, Texas monitored by the Texas Nature Conservancy. Once there, they are acclimated in pens for two-weeks and then released.

You may symbolically adopt an Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken in your name, a family member, friend, in the name of an organization, or as a memorial. If you designate other than yourself as the “Adopter,” the Certificate of Adoption will be sent to them and the acknowledgement to you. You may fill out the form on this website, select PayPal, make your donation by credit card, and you will be emailed both a Certificate of Adoption and an acknowledgement of your donation.

If you select the option to pay by check or money order; you will need to download the form, fill it out and mail it along with your check or money order, for a minimum of $100, made out to the Friends of APCR, at P.O. Box 212, Eagle Lake, TX 77434. Please print “Adopt” in the remarks section of your check or money order.

Your name or the name of your designated “Adopter,” will be displayed on the “Wall of Honor,” along with the month and year of the adoption, for a minimum of one year.