Lawrence D. Igl Douglas H. Johnson Marriah L. Sondreal Christopher M. Goldade Melvin P. Nenneman Travis L. Wooten Jason P. Thiele Betty R. Euliss Jill A. Shaffer 2020 <p>Keys to Sprague’s Pipit (<i>Anthus spragueii</i>) management include providing suitable grassland habitat, especially native prairie, with intermediate vegetation height and low visual obstruction, and controlling succession therein. Sprague’s Pipits have been reported to use habitats with no more than 49 centimeters (cm) average vegetation height, 4–14 cm visual obstruction reading, 15–53 percent grass cover, less than (&lt;) 21 percent forb cover, &lt;18 percent shrub cover, &lt;44 percent bare ground, 10–63 percent litter cover, and less than or equal to 11 cm litter depth.</p> application/pdf 10.3133/pp1842W en U.S. Geological Survey The effects of management practices on grassland birds—Sprague’s Pipit (<i>Anthus spragueii</i>) reports