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  2. Greater prairie-chicken - Wikipedia

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    The greater prairie-chicken or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, [2] is a large bird in the grouse family.This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare and extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss. [2]

  3. Attwater's prairie-chicken - Wikipedia

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    Attwater's prairie-chicken has been on the endangered species list since March 1967 when an estimated 1,070 birds were left in the wild. [11] By 2003, fewer than 50 birds remained in the wild. In 1999, The Nature Conservancy decided to permit new drilling close to primary breeding grounds on Texas land owned by the Conservancy.

  4. 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 ...

  5. DNR's new prairie chicken plan offers hope for ... - AOL

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

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Prairie chicken management plan up for review - AOL

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    The Department of Natural Resources will host a public meeting Jan. 18 on the future of prairie chicken management in Wisconsin and is seeking public comment through Feb. 18.

  9. 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.