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  2. Greater prairie-chicken - Wikipedia

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    The greater prairie-chicken was almost extinct in the 1930s due to hunting pressure and habitat loss. In Illinois alone, in the 1800s, the prairie-chicken numbered in the millions. It was a popular game bird, and like many prairie birds, which have also suffered massive habitat loss, it is now on the verge of extinction, with the wild bird ...

  3. Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a federally protected refugium encompassing one of the largest remnants of coastal prairie habitat remaining in southeast Texas, United States, and home to one of the last populations of critically endangered Attwater's prairie chickens, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem.

  4. Attwater's prairie-chicken - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] That harmed the prairie-chicken population at that location in the view of some organizations, including the Wildlife Society. [14] [15] The number of Attwater's prairie-chickens nesting on the land owned by the Conservancy fell from 36 in 1998 to 16 in 2003. [15] Attwater's prairie-chickens have since disappeared from the site. [12] Male

  5. Lesser prairie-chicken - Wikipedia

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    The lesser prairie-chicken's habitat has been reduced by 85%, and their population has declined by about 97% since 1800, in part due to unrestricted hunting. [7] Of the remaining patches of suitable habitat, only around 0.1% are sufficiently contiguous to sustain even a minimum population of the birds.

  6. Tympanuchus - Wikipedia

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    Tympanuchus comes from Ancient Greek roots and means "holding a drum"; it refers to the membranous neck sacks and the drum-like call of the greater prairie chicken. The two prairie chickens are particularly closely related and look extremely similar. But their taxonomy and the evolutionary relationships of the Tympanuchus is yet to be ...

  7. DNR's new prairie chicken plan offers hope for threatened ...

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    The Natural Resources Board approved a DNR plan to increase investments to assist the state's threatened prairie chicken population.

  8. Heath hen - Wikipedia

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    A prime example of this would be in opposing the lesser prairie chicken, which differs from the greater prairie chicken in being smaller, lighter, and having less distinct barring, to the heath hen, which was smaller, darker, and had more distinct barring, meaning that the lesser prairie chicken can be readily distinguished from the greater ...

  9. Smith: Prairie chicken plan is critical for other grassland ...

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    The 2022-32 Wisconsin prairie chicken management plan calls for grassland habitat improvements that would help a range of troubled bird species.