Two prairie chickens face off at sunrise at the Kellerton Wildlife Management Area. Prairie chickens, a native species to parts of the Midwest and the Great Plains, were extirpated from the state ...

GLYNDON, Minn. -- The show begins while sunrise is still just a reddish-orange rumor in the eastern sky. You hear it before you can see much of anything. Rapid wing beats ("Is that one over there? I ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Nature Conservancy have set up a livestream video of the greater prairie chickens on the lek at Bluestem Prairie near Glyndon. A male prairie ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans ...

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 ...

Buena Vista is one of the few remaining habitats for prairie chickens in Wisconsin and is considered an Important Bird Area. The prairie chicken population has declined significantly since the 1950s, ...

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 ...

This mating dance is more than just an annual ritual for the birds. Attwater’s prairie chickens are among the rarest birds in ...

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 land ...

WATSON -- Some of Minnesota's most celebrated wildlife restoration stories have been scripted in recent years with the return of trumpeter swans, osprey and peregrine falcons to parts of the state. A ...