Barred brown-and-white chickenlike grouse with a small head. Females have a dark eyeline and a pale throat.
Males gather and display for females at sites called leks. Males stomp their feet, raise their tail feathers, and inflate the air sacks to make a deep booming sound. This video has no audio.
Males gather in prairie openings where they display for females.
Barred brown-and-white chicklenlike grouse with a small head, rounded wings, and short tail.
Found in native prairies with scattered oaks.
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A chunky game bird with a small head, chubby body, short legs, and relatively short tail.
Larger than a Ruffed Grouse, smaller than a Ring-necked Pheasant.
crow-sizedGreater Prairie-Chickens are divided into two living subspecies plus the extinct Heath Hen, which lived in the northeastern U.S. Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken (attwateri) is a small, dark prairie-chicken that was once common around the western Gulf of Mexico but is now found only in three very small areas. Greater Prairie-Chickens that inhabit the Great Plains (pinnatus) are larger than Attwater’s and have mostly bare lower legs.
Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies(Order: Galliformes, Family: Phasianidae)
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