The news is the latest in the long-running back-and-forth over the bird's fate, as conservationists have sought support for the 30,000 lesser prairie chickens remaining in the country, a 90% decline ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday officially removed the lesser prairie chicken from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, fulfilling a federal court ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

Kansas boasts some of the best upland bird populations in the world. In fact, the largest concentrations of both lesser and greater prairie chickens are found in Kansas. Bobwhite quail still thrive ...

Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has released its upland game bird hunting forecast for 2023. The forecast is available online and will soon be in printed form, according to a news release.

PRATT, Kan. (WIBW) - The 2023 Kansas Upland Game Bird Forecast predicts a low chance of success for those who have their sites set on pheasants, however, quail and greater prairie chickens should be ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has announced a proposed “Threatened” listing of the lesser prairie chicken, and officials with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation say they ...

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists have ...