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 ...

The grassland-dependent lesser prairie-chicken was recently listed under the Endangered Species Act. Why? Because the purpose of the Act is to conserve the ecosystems upon which we and all other ...

A federally and state listed threatened species, the lesser-prairie chicken is found in small fragmented populations in the grasslands of southeast Colorado. Unfortunately, populations of this ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a male lesser prairie chicken in southeastern New Mexico. (AP File Photo) A court ruling taking the lesser prairie-chicken off ...

President Joe Biden has vetoed a Republican-sponsored bill to remove federal protections for an endangered species that have seen their populations plummet over the years: the lesser prairie ...

A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...

President Joe Biden vetoed a resolution to nullify his administration’s rule regarding the population segments under the Endangered Species Act. Biden in his veto message about said S.J. Resolution 9 ...

Sen. Roger Marshall showed some of his Senate colleagues a video of the mating ritual of the lesser prairie chicken. Now, he said, everyone is talking about them. “I grew up hunting prairie chickens, ...

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 ...