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 ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered ...

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 ...

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 ...

As they do every year, male lesser prairie-chickens gathered this Spring on the 48,000-acre Gardiner Angus Ranch in Ashland, Kansas for their ritual mating dance to attract females. The Gardiner Ranch ...

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 ...

The left’s war on fossil fuels knows no boundaries. Every line of attack will be pursued. The latest salvo came with the January listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened or endangered ...

A bird iconic to the American West continued to see its numbers dwindle last year as federal protections for the species were weeks away from going into effect. The lesser prairie chicken was deemed ...