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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Conservation banker looks to save prairie chicken - AOL

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    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 ...

  5. Feds to protect lesser prairie chicken in Kansas. It is ... - AOL

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    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moved to classify the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas as threatened, increasing the bird's legal protection.

  6. Biden vetoes two Republican-led bills to undo protections for ...

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    President Joe Biden has vetoed Republican-sponsored bills to undo federal protections for two endangered species that have seen their populations plummet over the years: the lesser prairie chicken ...

  7. Cimarron National Grassland - Wikipedia

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    A car tour of approximately 30 miles (48 km) on mostly dirt roads leads to most of the points of interest on the Grassland, including a prairie dog town, Point of Rocks, and the Santa Fe Trail. The Cimarron Grassland has a population of rare lesser prairie chickens and has two viewing areas. The males perform their courting rituals from mid ...

  8. GOP measures would undo protections for endangered lesser ...

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    In separate votes Thursday, the House gave final legislative approval to rescind protections for the lesser prairie chicken — a rare prairie bird once thought to number in the millions, but now ...

  9. Category:Tympanuchus - Wikipedia

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    Lesser prairie-chicken; S. Sharp-tailed grouse This page was last edited on 2 August 2021, at 00:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...