A lesser prairie chicken amid the bird's annual mating ritual on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Causey, New Mexico. Republican-led legislation could strip federal protections from a bird endangered in ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered in some places and threatened in others, citing mistakes made in the ...

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 ...

Conservationists sought to defend federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken amid legal challenges filed by multiple states in its protected range, since the bird was listed as endangered ...

The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a species of conservation concern on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, USA. Because fragmentation and isolation have ...

Republican-led legislation could strip federal protections from a bird endangered in the prairies of eastern New Mexico. The lesser prairie chicken, a grouse species native to New Mexico and other ...