Mail wing and tail feathers (one envelope per bird), along with info on the county of harvest, to Grouse Research A hybrid prairie grouse, showing both the pinnae feathers of a male prairie chicken ...

GLYNDON, Minn. - It is 6:50 a.m. at the Bluestem Prairie Scientific and Natural Area when the whooping, cackling, stomping and fluttering stops immediately. One second later, all 45 prairie chickens ...

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 ...

GLYNDON, Minn. -- The show begins while sunrise is still just a reddish-orange rumor in the eastern sky. You hear it before you can see much of anything. Rapid wing beats ("Is that one over there? I ...

The prairie was still asleep when I drug my blurry-eyed self and camera gear out of a van onto a pasture in Gove County. Our instructions indicated we should follow the stacks of cow pies to the ...

Prairie chickens and the grasslands they need to survive were kind of overlooked, one might say, back in 1973, when two young biologists working in Crookston decided to see if they could draw some ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers inhibited a gene during embryonic development in chickens to see if it would make ...

A bird native to the Houston area will be in the spotlight this fall as part of a relaunch of a long running wildlife TV show. ENDANGERED SPECIES: Attwater’s prairie chicken numbers ‘booming’ at ...

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 ...