The future of greater prairie chickens in Wisconsin took an optimistic turn Wednesday as a new species management plan for the native bird was approved by the Natural Resources Board. The document, ...

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 ...

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 ...

WATSON -- Some of Minnesota's most celebrated wildlife restoration stories have been scripted in recent years with the return of trumpeter swans, osprey and peregrine falcons to parts of the state. A ...

GLYNDON, Minn. -- The show begins while sunrise is still just a reddish-orange rumor in the eastern sky. You hear it before you can see much of anything. Rapid wing beats ("Is that one over there? I ...

The left’s war on fossil fuels knows no boundaries. Every line of attack will be pursued. The latest salvo came with the January listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened or endangered ...

What I remember most about that dark early morning of crouching on the prairie is the rhythmic sound of pounding. It was so loud I wondered if someone had put a microphone near the skinny legs of the ...

I am not a stranger to getting up at O’ dark thirty to be able to get out and capture some images of wildlife. Over the past 40 years I would say it is definitely in the hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

Let’s get one thing clear from the start: I am not a bird person. The only time in my life I can remember ever being intrigued by a bird was when I moved to Wichita and saw my first cardinal — perched ...

Mail wing and tail feathers (one envelope per bird), along with info on the county of harvest, to Grouse Research A hybrid prairie grouse, showing both the pinnae feathers of a male prairie chicken ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe ...