Greater Prairie Chicken Behaviour
No observations regarding Greater Prairie Chicken behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Greater Prairie Chickens ...
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
Heath Hen, Tympanuchus (cupido) cupido (extinct, 1932)
Lesser Prairie Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus ...
Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido
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Where are they found? North America ...
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.
Studies in Oklahoma on adjacent ranges of lesser and greater prairie chickens revealed surprising differences in the food plants selected [13].
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.
Birds classified as endangered species on both lists include the red cockaded woodpecker, the Southwestern willow flycatcher, the whooping crane, the golden-cheeked warbler, Attwater's greater prairie chicken, the northern aplomado falcon, ...
 See also: Greater Prairie, Prairie Chicken, Grouse, Pheasant, Ruffe
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