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prairie chicken
noun
: a grouse (Tympanuchus cupido) chiefly of the tallgrass prairies of the central U.S. with the male having yellowish-orange neck sacs which are inflated during courtship displays
also
: a closely related smaller grouse (T. pallidicinctus) having reddish neck sacs
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As winter begins to close, nature lovers head to the grasslands around Wray to see the courtship dance of the greater prairie chickens and hear their loud calls.
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Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024
There may have been hats or fudge, but there wasn’t always, say, a patch with an image of the most enormous booming prairie chicken.
—Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
Lesser prairie chickens are a ground-nesting species – found in parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas – that is listed under the Endangered Species Act.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
New Englanders watched the heath hen, an eastern prairie chicken, collapse to a single male who died in 1931, followed quickly by the extinction of the most colorful of all our birds, the Carolina parakeet.
—TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
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Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024
There may have been hats or fudge, but there wasn’t always, say, a patch with an image of the most enormous booming prairie chicken.
—Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
Lesser prairie chickens are a ground-nesting species – found in parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas – that is listed under the Endangered Species Act.
—Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
New Englanders watched the heath hen, an eastern prairie chicken, collapse to a single male who died in 1931, followed quickly by the extinction of the most colorful of all our birds, the Carolina parakeet.
—TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
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“Prairie chicken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prairie%20chicken. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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