Common use of Foraging Clause in Contracts

Foraging. TKR primarily eat seeds from forbs and grasses, but may also eat plant parts such as leaves, flowers, or fruit when they are new and tender; cultivated oat, Johnsongrass, ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ ▇▇▇▇, broomweed, and bladderpod seeds were considered preferred by one study. Seeds and plant materials are transported inside TKR’s cheek pouches from foraging areas to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ via movement corridors. Shortgrass species (buffalograss, blue grama, etc.) and forbs provide screening cover to aid them in retreating to their ▇▇▇▇▇▇ system to avoid nocturnal predators such as rattlesnakes and owls; any nocturnal predator, such as coyotes, foxes, feral dogs or cats, bobcats, or snakes, may predate on TKR. TKR foraging habitat should be dominated by seed- producing forbs (weeds) with adequate bare ground to facilitate TKR movement throughout the area, but still contain adequate screening cover in the form of short grasses; too much shrub cover (>15%) may increase their risk of predation. Within the TKR range, good quail brood-rearing habitat is probably also good TKR and Texas horned lizard habitat.