This mating dance is more than just an annual ritual for the birds. Attwater’s prairie chickens are among the rarest birds in the Lonestar State and are highly-endangered. According to Nature ...
It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is running late. Gillespie, a wildlife biologist at Prairie Ridge State Natural Area near Newton, opens a gate with a do ...
People are invited to south-central Iowa on Saturday to watch prairie chickens dance about in a courtship ritual.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the Annual Prairie Chicken Festival will ...
McCOOK, Neb. (KOLN) - As Carol Schlegel drives south of McCook, Horned Larks dart past her headlights. But they’re not the birds she’s looking for. The real stars of the spring show are Greater ...
A profile of Wisconsin's Greater Prairie Chicken population and the problems they face. They're small, feisty, and every April they lay down a sound on Wisconsin's landscape unlike any other. The ...
The Booming-N-Blooming Festival at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Sealy reminds me of an April morning in 1983. I sat quietly on the dew-laden ground behind a wooden blind ...
For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at sunrise to watch the unique courtship dance of the prairie chicken, whose population in Iowa has been ...
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