Let’s get one thing clear from the start: I am not a bird person. The only time in my life I can remember ever being intrigued by a bird was when I moved to Wichita and saw my first cardinal — perched ...

On April 21, just before dawn, on the rolling prairie of Switzer Ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, we sat on folding chairs inside an old school-bus-turned bird photography blind. It was a bracing 38 ...

To showcase prairie chicken mating behavior, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has set up a livestream video from Bluestem Prairie Preserve, near Glyndon, Minnesota. To showcase the sights ...

A week ago Saturday, an alarm broke the pre-pre-dawn darkness. A big day lay ahead — very big — with little time to spare. I unzipped my bag and sat up in my hammock. The agenda was to dress, break ...

The Booming-N-Blooming Festival at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Sealy reminds me of an April morning in 1983. I sat quietly on the dew-laden ground behind a wooden blind ...

On a recent trip to the Taylor Ranch on the outskirts of Grand Island, members of a tour to view the unusual mating practices of the grassland prairie chicken found one animal who just didn't get it. ...

NEWTON, Ill. (AP) -- Few sounds are more plaintive and otherworldly than the booming of prairie chickens. It was still dark, cold and windy one early April morning at Prairie Ridge State Natural Area ...

“If they don't survive, that's a sad statement about our society…they've been a part of this land for thousands and thousands of years. And if what we've done, in the way we've taken care of the land, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is ...

Sen. Roger Marshall posted this GIF image after the Senate voted to revoke federal protection for lesser prairie chickens. Hilarity ensued. Twitter/RogerMarshallMD Let’s get one thing clear from the ...

It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is running late. Gillespie, a wildlife biologist at Prairie Ridge State Natural Area near Newton, opens a gate with a do ...