GLYNDON, Minn. -- The show begins while sunrise is still just a reddish-orange rumor in the eastern sky. You hear it before you can see much of anything. Rapid wing beats ("Is that one over there? I ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered in some places and threatened in others, citing mistakes made in the ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Ashland — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam ...

A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has approved two measures to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken and northern long-eared bat — two endangered animals that have seen their populations ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe ...

Mail wing and tail feathers (one envelope per bird), along with info on the county of harvest, to Grouse Research A hybrid prairie grouse, showing both the pinnae feathers of a male prairie chicken ...

A bird native to the Houston area will be in the spotlight this fall as part of a relaunch of a long running wildlife TV show. ENDANGERED SPECIES: Attwater’s prairie chicken numbers ‘booming’ at ...

Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.