A study is underway for the sparrow to look at its long flight from its breeding grounds in north central Canada to its ...

These birds require large parcels of intact native grasslands, often in excess of 20,000 acres. RANGE: Currently the lesser prairie chicken is present in southeastern Colorado, the southwestern ...

The rare dancing grouse of the Southwest, called the lesser prairie chicken ... dances on “booming grounds” in the spring. These birds need large, unfragmented parcels of intact native grasslands to ...

Two Kansas Republicans are leading an initiative to delist the lesser prairie chicken from the threatened and endangered species list. U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, recently led 14 of his ...

grassland bird species and prairie dogs. Today, this ecosystem -- stretching from Canada to Mexico -- is one of the most endangered in the world, with widespread declines in native wildlife ...

more than 95% decline in bison and prairie dog populations and a 50% decline in grassland bird species. After looking at ecological, political and social factors, climate change, and land use ...