Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conservationists sought to defend federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken amid legal challenges filed by multiple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lesser prairie chicken amid the bird's annual mating ritual on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Causey, New Mexico. Republican-led ...

An aerial survey conducted this spring found that America’s lesser prairie chicken population had increased about 20 percent since the same study area was flown in 2013. A Kansas Department of ...

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 ...

Conservationists sought to defend federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken amid legal challenges filed by multiple states in its protected range, since the bird was listed as endangered ...

Republican-led legislation could strip federal protections from a bird endangered in the prairies of eastern New Mexico. The lesser prairie chicken, a grouse species native to New Mexico and other ...