The Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday finalized a rule delisting two populations of the lesser prairie chicken under the ...

There used to be millions of lesser prairie chickens, according to the Associated Press, but now there are only about 30,000 ...

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

The “delisting” is connected to a federal court ruling last year that ended protections under the Endangered Species Act, ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s protected status is for the birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I mean, you're riding a horse across here and ever since I was a little kid, they fly off like a pheasant … it's pretty cool to see them.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates millions of ...

Conservationists warn of extinction risk as Trump administration ends federal protections for the bird ...