Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species.

As they do every year, male lesser prairie-chickens gathered this Spring on the 48,000-acre Gardiner Angus Ranch in Ashland, Kansas for their ritual ...

The southern range of the lesser prairie-chicken in eastern New Mexico and the southwest Texas panhandle was listed as endangered due to the threat of extinction.

In the northern region, including western Kansas, southeastern Colorado, western Oklahoma and the northeast Texas panhandle, the lesser prairie-chicken was listed as threatened. The southern range of ...

Open-market forces could bring investors, conservationists, energy producers and ranchers together to better serve interests of the lesser prairie chicken.

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 ...

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.

The grassland-dependent lesser prairie-chicken was recently listed under the Endangered Species Act. Why? Because the purpose of the Act is to conserve the ecosystems upon which we and all other ...

The lesser prairie chicken, known for its colorful spring mating dance, was out in the earlier hours of the morning on April 23, 2024. (Wayne Walker/Common Ground Capital) ...

The lesser prairie chicken is a member of the grouse family found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest, including the oil-rich Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas.

The lesser prairie chicken, a grouse species native to the plains of southeast New Mexico and West Texas, was deemed endangered November 2022 as its population dwindled to near extinction.