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 ...

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Topeka — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Ashland — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam ...

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 ...