WRAY, Colo. — In the town of Wray on Colorado’s Eastern Plains, the greater prairie chicken is not just surviving — it’s dancing. Every spring, visitors from across the country travel to Wray to ...
A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...
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 plight of the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin appears set to take a turn for the worse. As a longtime advocate for the native bird, that's a hard statement for me to write. And although it ...
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 ...
The plan for a massive solar energy development in Portage County has caused conservationists to sound the alarm over the project's potential detrimental impacts to Wisconsin's threatened population ...
Of the many signs of spring in northeastern Oklahoma, few are as iconic or as threatened as the courtship dances of the greater prairie chicken in the tallgrass prairie. Prairie chickens gather at ...