TEXAS CITY - Brandon Crawford stopped his white SUV in the middle of a waterlogged, mosquito-filled prairie, and pointed what looked like a 1970s television antenna toward the horizon. A steady "ping, ...

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 ...

Bianca Sicich isn’t ready to let go of the prairie just yet. It’s the last Friday of February, the first green shoots of spring emerging from the overwintering tall grass, and she’s up early to ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Topeka — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

WRAY, Colo. — In the town of Wray on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, the greater prairie chicken is not just surviving — it’s dancing. Every spring, visitors from across the country travel to Wray to ...

Male prairie chickens dance and call as they attempt to attract a mate April 11, 2025 at Buena Vista Wildlife Area in central Wisconsin.

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT AYR, Iowa (AP) -- Imagine a time when the low, booming calls of prairie chickens resonated across Iowa's gently rolling hills. At Kellerton Grasslands, that time is now. Members of a recent ...

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 ...

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 ...