There are less than 100 breeding male lesser prairie chickens estimated in Colorado currently, where the bird is considered a ...

Kansas boasts some of the best upland bird populations in the world. In fact, the largest concentrations of both lesser and greater prairie chickens are found in Kansas. Bobwhite quail still thrive ...

PRATT, Kan. (WIBW) - The 2023 Kansas Upland Game Bird Forecast predicts a low chance of success for those who have their sites set on pheasants, however, quail and greater prairie chickens should be ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s protected status is for the birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision Wednesday to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the fowl. It may ...

Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.

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 ...

Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to develop ...

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists have ...