After pecking away for years, the Trump administration Wednesday finally erased all remaining endangered species protections ...

A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected ...

A Midwestern bird known for its unique appearance and impressive courtship dances is officially off the federal threatened and endangered species list.

The mottled brown and white grouse, just bigger than a pigeon, is best known for its vibrant mating dance, in which the males inflate their cheek pouches with a booming call and stomp their feet.

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered ...

A federally and state listed threatened species, the lesser-prairie chicken is found in small fragmented populations in the grasslands of southeast Colorado. Unfortunately, populations of this ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to protect lesser prairie chickens. In 2021 the Service proposed adding a Texas and New ...

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 ...