The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists have ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered ...

Can private ecosystem markets protect the lesser prairie-chicken’s habitat when federal regulation has either failed or may be overturned? That’s the question that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Landowner ...

Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to develop ...

ASHLAND, Kansas — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam the Great Plains. They once fed, nested, danced and mated in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, ...

The Interior Department is asking a federal judge to strike down its own Endangered Species Act determination for the lesser prairie chicken, citing a “serious defect” in the 2022 listing that should ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be ...

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.