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Bookmark or Share- Lesser Prairie-Chicken | Audubon Field GuideAt a Glance. A little smaller and paler than the Greater Prairie-Chicken, this grouse is adapted to arid short-grass regions of the southern Great Plains. At one time it was abundant in this region, but it has declined seriously, and is now an uncommon bird found in a few local concentrations.
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken Listed Under the Endangered Species ActA thorough review of past, present, and future threats to the lesser prairie-chicken, as well as an analysis of ongoing conservation efforts, finds the Southern DPS is in danger of extinction, and the Northern DPS is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken - All About BirdsThe Lesser Prairie-Chicken is a pale grouse of the southern Great Plains, found only in prairie and agricultural land with shinnery oak and sand sagebrush. Once widespread and abundant, its numbers have crashed following heavy hunting in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then conversion of its natural habitat to cropland and rangeland.
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken - U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceOverview. The lesser prairie-chicken is a species of prairie grouse endemic to the southern and central high plains of the United States, commonly recognized for its feathered tarsi (legs), stout build, ground-dwelling habit, and lek mating behavior.
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken - eBirdLesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus. Sign in to see your badges. Identification. POWERED BY MERLIN. Listen. + 3 more audio recordings. Plump chickenlike bird found in grasslands. Body and wings entirely barred brown with paler buffy throat.
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