On April 21, just before dawn, on the rolling prairie of Switzer Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, we sat on folding chairs inside an old school-bus-turned bird photography blind. It was a bracing 38 ...

To showcase prairie chicken mating behavior, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has set up a livestream video from Bluestem Prairie Preserve, near Glyndon, Minnesota. To showcase the sights ...

A week ago Saturday, an alarm broke the pre-pre-dawn darkness. A big day lay ahead — very big — with little time to spare. I unzipped my bag and sat up in my hammock. The agenda was to dress, break ...

Guys, take note: Those lame pick-up lines are old news. If you want to catch a girl, booming is all the rage. At least that's the case in the grasslands of central Wisconsin, where every April male ...

The Booming-N-Blooming Festival at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Sealy reminds me of an April morning in 1983. I sat quietly on the dew-laden ground behind a wooden blind ...

Sen. Roger Marshall posted this GIF image after the Senate voted to revoke federal protection for lesser prairie chickens. Hilarity ensued. Twitter/RogerMarshallMD Let’s get one thing clear from the ...

GRAND ISLAND Central Nebraska is already well-known for its sandhill cranes, but now people are coming from across the country to watch the mating rituals of prairie chickens. This is the first year ...

On a recent trip to the Taylor Ranch on the outskirts of Grand Island, members of a tour to view the unusual mating practices of the grassland prairie chicken found one animal who just didn't get it. ...

“If they don't survive, that's a sad statement about our society…they've been a part of this land for thousands and thousands of years. And if what we've done, in the way we've taken care of the land, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is ...