Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – A Midwestern bird known for its unique appearance and impressive courtship dances is officially off the federal threatened and endangered species list. Groups opposed to the move have, ...

The third annual Kansas Lek Treks Prairie-Chicken Festival is to be held in Hays, Kansas. The highlight of this birding festival will include opportunities to view both Greater and Lesser ...

A federal court has invalidated the Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken, citing procedural errors. The ruling reflects ongoing legal battles over species protection and ...

Two Adult Male Lesser Prairie Chicken Sparring at a Lek in Kansas. Lekking is a special gathering, primarily featuring Greater and Lesser Prairie-Chickens, where males “dance,” coo, and battle for ...

Colorado’s lesser prairie-chicken population has fallen from more than 80,000 birds in 1975 to just 89 breeding males, according to a 2024 data. To restore the population of the critically threatened ...

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 ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

Preserving habitat for lesser prairie-chickens is crucial to their survival, and Wayne Walker believes one way to preserve habitat is to allow private investment so that farmers and ranchers have ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe ...