ASHLAND, Kansas — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam the Great Plains. They once fed, nested, danced and mated in the ...

More than 100 birdwatchers from 29 states were in Hays this weekend for the fifth-annual Lek Treks Prairie Chicken Festival ...

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 ...

Audubon of Kansas (AOK) is excited to announce the 5th annual Kansas Lek Treks Prairie-Chicken Festival, returning to Hays ...

A U.S. District judge on Aug. 12 ruled in favor of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, finding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service committed a “foundational error” when it declared the prairie-chicken ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Trump administration issued a final decision on Thursday stripping the northern and southern populations of the lesser prairie chicken of their endangered and threatened ...

A federal judge ruled the Biden administration's decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered was unlawful. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and other plaintiffs, ...

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 ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Ashland — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam ...

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.