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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 ...
The heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido) is an extinct subspecies of the greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), a large North American bird in the grouse family. It became extinct in 1932. Heath hens lived in the scrubby heathland barrens of coastal North America from southernmost New Hampshire to northern Virginia in historical times.
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 ...
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Dusky or blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) and common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) near Portland, Oregon, United States [2] Sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) and prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) [3] Willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) and spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) [4]
Bonasa Stephens, 1819 (ruffed grouse) Tetrastes Keyserling & Blasius, 1840 (hazel grouse) Centrocercus Swainson, 1832 (sage-grouse) Dendragapus Elliot, 1864 (blue grouse) Tympanuchus Gloger, 1841 (prairie-chickens and sharp-tailed grouse) Lagopus Brisson, 1760 (ptarmigans) Falcipennis Elliot, 1864 (Siberian grouse) Canachites Stejneger, 1885 ...
Bonasa (ruffed grouse) Tetrastes (hazel grouse) Centrocercus (sage-grouse) Dendragapus (blue grouse) Tympanuchus (prairie-chickens and sharp-tailed grouse) Lagopus (ptarmigans) Falcipennis (Siberian grouse) Canachites (spruce grouse) Tetrao (capercaillies) Lyrurus (black grouse) incertae sedis: Rhizothera (long-billed partridges) incertae sedis ...
The video was originally posted by the right-wing Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, who offered a $5,000 bounty to anyone that could provide “proof” of cat-eating immigrants in Ohio ...