The lesser prairie chicken was to be listed under the highest class of protections “endangered” in a southern population segment covering southeast New Mexico and West Texas, the announcement ...

The lesser prairie chicken's range covers a portion of the oil-rich Permian Basin along the New Mexico-Texas state line and extends into parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas.The habitat of the ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s population dwindled severely in recent years, imperiled by oil and gas, agriculture and other developments throughout the range, leading to the listing filed by the ...

What I remember most about that dark early morning of crouching on the prairie is the rhythmic sound of pounding. It was so loud I wondered if someone had put a microphone near the skinny legs of the ...

Prairie chicken range is limited to a portion of northwest and far western Minnesota, with a small pocket in central Minnesota. Sharptails, by comparison, ...

Mar. 22—While appreciating the plight of the threatened lesser prairie chicken, the Barton County Commission Wednesday morning approved participating in a Kansas Natural Resource Coalition ...

A male lesser prairie chicken climbing a sage limb at a breeding area near Follett, Texas. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the birds under the Endangered Species Act.

Now, a rigorous genomics study of prairie chickens in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas led by Purdue University scientists has found evidence of hybridization between species with ...

Hunters can help researchers in a study looking at whether hybridization between prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse is influencing prairie chicken populations. The long-term effects of ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once believed to number in the hundreds of thousands, but today New Mexico is home to about a few thousand of the birds.

The lesser prairie chicken was to be listed under the highest class of protections “endangered” in a southern population segment covering southeast New Mexico and West Texas, the announcement ...

The lesser prairie chicken was to be listed under the highest class of protections “endangered” in a southern population segment covering southeast New Mexico and West Texas, the announcement ...