Searching for prairie birds can be really rewarding—it forces you to slow down to a meander and to stop to take in your surroundings. Just take a look at some of the species you could see.

A conservation group said it would drop a court challenge after the developer of a 1.3-gigawatt solar-and-battery project ...

The crew also participated in a prairie chicken lek viewing that took place in the feeble light of dawn and at relatively close distances. Once the binoculars for bird watching were returned, we put ...

A male lesser prairie chicken in front of a yucca cactus. The bird's main habitat is short and mid-grass prairie, often with yucca, sage and cactus. Farming, wind farms and oil production and ...

The lesser prairie chicken, known for the males’ quirky courtship dance, inhabits grasslands sought-after by farming and energy developers. By Catrin Einhorn The Trump administration has moved ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Nature Conservancy have set up a livestream video of the greater prairie chickens on the lek at Bluestem Prairie near Glyndon. SAVE 50% NOW ...

The Paw Report. Efforts to Save the Endangered Prairie Chicken. Season 12 Episode 5 | 27m Video has Closed Captions | CC. At one time, the birds could be found in just about every part of Illinois.

What a chicken-size bird can tell us about a shrinking prairie Scientists say the long-billed curlew’s movements inform research on grasslands health September 30, 2023 More than 1 year ago ...

The lesser prairie chicken, despite its name, has long been an important and iconic symbol of the Southwest's prairies and grasslands. Its shrinking population -- estimated to have once been in ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says that Prairie Chicken Day, typically held the first week in April, was canceled due to the bird’s decline in population that has resulted in only ...

Critters In Pursuit of Texas’s Rarest Bird, the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Fewer than 200 of the birds remain in the wild. Every spring, they put on a vibrant mating display.

One alternative in the plan would also place solar panels on known prairie chicken breeding sites, also known as dancing grounds or leks. The birds spread out from breeding sites as far as 2 miles ...