Photo of the Day 47

Attwater's Prairie Chick, Texas, 2002

Photograph by Joel Sartore

A weeks-old Attwater's prairie-chicken perches in a delicate nest in Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in Glen Rose, Texas. A century ago, as many as a million Attwater's prairie-chickens roamed coastal grasslands here. Today fewer than 50 of these chickens are left in the wild, due to overhunting and habitat loss.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Down to a Handful," March 2002, National Geographic magazine)