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'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.

DNR seeks feather samples for sharptail-prairie chicken hybrid study Mail wing and tail feathers (one envelope per bird), along with info on the county of harvest, to Grouse Research ...

Sharp-tailed grouse range has expanded southward, and sharp-tailed grouse dancing grounds have increased in prairie chicken range.

The lesser prairie chicken’s population dwindled severely, imperiled by oil and gas, agriculture and other developments throughout the range.

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 ...

In many parts of the West, it has disappeared entirely. Lesser prairie chickens now number about 30,000, less than 2% of what they were in the 19th century when the birds flourished in the hundreds of ...

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. David Crenshaw ...

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 ...