EAGLE LAKE - For a football-size bird with a goofy build, the Attwater prairie chicken flies with astounding grace. As it soars over a late-summer field green with blue stem, yellow Indian and ...

In 2012 the lesser prairie chicken population bottomed out at 35,000 individuals — until it reached a new low of only about 17,616 birds the very next year, a massive decline of about 50 percent. The ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Texas energy regulator David Porter writes efforts to list the Lesser Prairie Chicken as endangered are another gambit by the Obama crowd to stop the energy boom.

A meta‐analysis of lesser prairie‐chicken nesting and brood‐rearing habitats: Implications for habitat management, Wildlife Society Bulletin, 37(4):750-758 | doi:10.1002/wsb.313 Read more ...

This report by CBS4's Paul Day originally aired in 2010. It was featured again in April 2011 on the CBS4 program Colorado Getaways. WRAY, Colo. (CBS4) - The dance of the Greater Prairie Chicken ...

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 ...

Zoo officials started its prairie chicken captive breeding program in 1994. Schoen said only about 40 of the birds remain on protected reserve land when once at least 1 million birds roamed the ...

In 2012 the lesser prairie chicken population bottomed out at 35,000 individuals — until it reached a new low of only about 17,616 birds the very next year, a massive decline of about 50 percent. The ...