Greater prairie-chicken Tympanuchus cupido
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Greater Prairie-Chicken
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Greater Prairie-Chicken
Tympanuchus cupido
The Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) lives in some of the native prairie regions of the mid west United States from parts of Texas (Attwater's race), northern Oklahoma, Kansas, ...
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido
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The Greater Prairie Chicken perform their spectacular booming displays every spring on traditional sites, such as in the Fort Pierre National Grasslands near Pierre, where the photo on the right was taken.
Greater prairie chickens are native to North America. Habitat loss caused a great decline in the number of Greater Prairie chickens and almost pushed them towards extinction.
Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido
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Other Names Greater Prairie Chicken Texas Status Endangered U.S. Status Endangered, Listed 3/11/1967 Description The Attwater's prairie chicken is a small, brown bird about 17 inches long, with short, rounded, dark tail.
Greater prairie-chickens inhabit climax grasslands of the eastern Great Plains [5,11]. These prairies are dominated by big and little bluestem, indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans), and switchgrass (Panicum spp.).
They may negatively affect greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) and gray partridges (Perdix perdix) through nest parasitism, habitat competition, transmission of disease, and aggressive behaviour.
Efforts are underway in parts of the Midwest to restore native tallgrass prairie habitat for Henslow's Sparrow, as well as others like the Greater Prairie-Chicken.
In Illinois Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) sanctuaries, Sedge Wrens preferred burned areas 3 yr postburn over hayed and idle areas (Westemeier and Buhnerkempe 1983).
THE PINNATED GROUSE.
[Greater Prairie-Chicken.]
TETRAO CUPIDO, Linn.
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 See also: Greater Prairie-Chicken, Grouse, Prairie Chicken, Pheasant, Greater Prairie Chicken
  
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