How to Use prairie chicken in a Sentence

prairie chicken

noun

• The female prairie chickens, watching from afar, will choose who has the best call and smartest dance.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2023
• The closest living relative of the heath hen, which went extinct in the 1930s, is the greater prairie chicken.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
• There is a market solution for the lesser prairie chicken, yet the state agencies quashed it.
  — WSJ, 5 July 2021
• Dunn has also come out against such actions as the addition of the dunes sagebrush lizard and the prairie chicken to the endangered species list.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• To read the prairie chicken management plan, visit dnr.wi.gov.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• In southeast Colorado, leases have been proposed in some of the spots where lesser prairie chickens live.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
• The prairie chicken's challenges are part of a troubling trend for grassland-reliant species overall.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• The groups sued the federal government in June to force it to make a designation for the lesser prairie chicken and its habitats.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019
• But Congress voted this year to undo protections for a rare grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken as well as the northern long-eared bat.
  — John Flesher, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The chicken dance replicates the strut of a prairie chicken, while the grass dance, whose outfits are distinguished by their long fringe that sways as the dancer moves, is meant to imitate the stomping of grass.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2022
• Leases are proposed in a part of southeastern Colorado where lesser prairie chickens live.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
• Earlier this month, the Senate voted to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a rare grouse found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest.
  — John Flesher, ajc, 11 May 2023
• Over the past twenty years, both greater prairie chicken and sharp-tailed grouse populations have primarily remained stable or have grown.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• But with a couple of Democratic defections, the Senate voted narrowly this spring to undo protections for a rare grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken as well as the northern long-eared bat.
  — John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
• Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus is the Latin name for prairie chicken.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
• The public is encouraged to submit comments regarding the draft prairie chicken management plan no later than Feb. 18.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2022
• Great prairie chicken populations grew for the first time in decades (though more recent studies question the role of genetic rescue in this success), along with the Swedish adder, a venomous snake that had suffered from inbreeding.
  — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
• State wildlife biologists in April caught lesser prairie chickens in Kansas and released them in southeast Colorado as part of a multi-year program to rebuild the bird’s population.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
• For the upcoming sale, Colorado Parks and Wildlife recommended deferring action on some of the leases proposed in lesser prairie chicken habitat, but none in greater sage grouse areas.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
• All this human encroachment into grasslands imperils these rich habitats that animals, from cheetahs to caribou to prairie chickens, call home.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
• Republicans say protections for the lesser prairie chicken interfere with U.S. oil and gas production and jeopardize thousands of American jobs.
  — Matthew Daly, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• In 2015 a federal judge blocked the Obama prairie chicken endangered listing because the Administration had not sufficiently considered alternatives to conserve bird habitat.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 June 2021
• Her administration resisted Biden administration efforts to preserve the lesser prairie chicken’s habitat, which raises concerns that agriculture and energy production will be restricted.
  — John Hanna, ajc, 23 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024