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	PRAIRIE RIDGE STATE NATURAL AREA
		Breeding biology and habitat of upland sandpipers on prairie chicken sanctuaries in Illinois.
		The Prairie Chicken in Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Crookston.
		Parasitism of greater prairie chicken nests by ring-necked pheasants.
	dnr.state.il.us /orc/prairieridge (5380 words)

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		The greater prairie chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, is a characteristic bird of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem.
		Greater prairie chickens thrive in the tallgrass prairies.
		In the late 1800’s people were noting that the numbers of prairie chickens and other species were declining due to human causes, and maybe theses animals might play a greater role in the ecosystem.
	climate.konza.ksu.edu /keep/chicken/chick_home.asp (609 words)

	Kansas School Naturalist: Greater Prairie Chicken Management
		Populations of the greater prairie chicken in Kansas have been steadily declining for the past 30 years, according to surveys by the Department of Wildlife and Parks (Figure 1).
		In Kansas, greater prairie chickens inhabit diverse areas from the mid-grass prairie, found in the north central part of the state, to the seeded tame grass areas in the southeast.
		Prairie chickens will use most of the habitats found in a grazed tallgrass prairie, from the lightly grazed areas for nesting to overgrazed areas for booming grounds.
	www.emporia.edu /ksn/v45n1-sept1998/intro.htm (507 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken Appears On Comeback Trail In Illinois
		The greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) is estimated to have numbered in the millions in Illinois when pioneers moved west.
		The current range of the greater prairie chicken is from northwestern Minnesota south to northeastern Oklahoma, and from southeastern Illinois to northeastern Colorado.
		The prairie chickens' recovery, Brawn said, may be temporary, and it may be necessary to bring in more birds in several years to revitalize the population's diversity.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-11/UoIa-GPCA-271198.php (1287 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken
		The prairie chicken is strongly barred brown and tan to white, especially on the underparts.
		Prairie chickens now occur most abundantly in the native prairies of southwestern Missouri, but a remnant population exists in the north central and northeastern Missouri grasslands.
		The decline of prairie chickens is mostly the result of habitat change from prairies to cultivation, and overgrazing of remaining grasslands.
	mdc.mo.gov /nathis/birds/chickens (1271 words)

	The Greater Prairie Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is the bustling view of courting prairie chickens; a delight to the conservationist and a reminder that Fort Riley is a crown jewel for grassland birds.
		The greater prairie chicken, (Tympanuchus cupido), is a species of grouse that was once common throughout the Midwest.
		Prairie chickens have persisted in Kansas largely because of the unbroken Flint Hills, including Fort Riley.
	www.riley.army.mil /view/article.asp?id=495-2004-10-27-52591-44 (484 words)

	Laura's Species Account: Greater Prairie-Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Prairie chickens populations are in grave danger of dwindling to unsurvivable lows.
		Prairie chickens historically have limited themselves to habitat that is entirely grass--small wonder they have no inclination to change their flight as they head into a fence.
		Prairie chickens are dangerously declining, and need every opportunity possible to successfully court and breed, and need as much habitat protected as possible so their ground nests aren't disturbed or damaged.
	birderblog.com /bird/Species/Gallinaceous/GrPrairieChicken/GPCH.html (518 words)

	Prairie Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Greater and lesser prairie chickens can be distinguished by their size and by the appearance of the gular sacs and pinnae.
		Greater prairie chickens are found in the tall-grass and mixed-grass prairies of the Midwest and the northern and central plains.
		The greater prairie chicken hen lays 7 to 13 olive eggs with small brown spots in a depression in thick grass.
	www.dccl.org /information/prairie_chicken1.htm (524 words)

	Farming and Wildlife - Greater Prairie Chicken
		The prairie chicken is primarily found in west central Missouri where most of the state's remaining native prairie occurs.
		The prairie chicken is an openland grassland bird with prairie or planted warm-season grasses as the preferred habitat.
		Prairie chickens feed on legume leaves and seeds and the insects that are attracted to clovers.
	mdc.mo.gov /landown/wild/pchicken/farming (1597 words)

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		Greater prairie-chicken displaying on a lek in the tallgrass prairie region in the flint hills of Kansas.
		Greater Prairie-Chicken attendance at leks and stability of leks in Colorado.
		Zimmerman, J. The Birds of Konza: The avian ecology of the tallgrass prairie.
	comp.uark.edu /~aclifton/gpch.htm (614 words)

	Saskatchewan Environment - Greater Prairie Chicken
		Greater Prairie Chickens prefer native grassland consisting of mixed-grass and tall-grass prairie.
		The main factor affecting the survival of the Greater Prairie Chicken appears to be the lack of large ungrazed blocks of native prairie grassland.
		A Greater Prairie Chicken recovery team was established in 1993 to determine the possibility of recovering the species in Canada.
	www.se.gov.sk.ca /ecosystem/speciesatrisk/greaterprairiechicken.htm (683 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken
		The male prairie chicken will raise his head feathers, inflate the neck patches and stamp its feet- all in a display to intimidate other males and to attract females during courtship.
		The introduction of the ring-necked pheasant in the 19th century caused prairie chicken populations to drop.
		The last greater prairie chicken in central Ohio was in 1868, however they remained in northern counties until the 1870s.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1064 (427 words)

	NPWRC :: Greater Prairie-Chicken
		Greater prairie-chickens were recorded on Mormon Island in March 1981, 1983, and 1984 and on 15 February 1985.
		Tout (1947) described annual movements of greater-prairie chicken in Lincoln County; the birds nest in the Sandhills and migrate to the Platte River Valley in winter.
		Native prairie was the most important nesting and brood rearing habitat in Missouri, supporting 60% of all nest sites (Drobney and Sparrowe 1977).
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/platte/species/tympcupi.htm (636 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken - Discover The Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Greater prairie chickens are found locally in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin and also from Manitoba south through the Great Plains to Oklahoma.
		Prairie chickens are associated with large expanses of native grasslands and with native grasslands interspersed with cropland.
		The other common method is to find the feed fields the prairie chickens are using and then pass shoot the birds as they fly from their roosting areas to the feed fields and back.
	www.dto.com /hunting/species/generalprofile.jsp?speciesid=117 (453 words)

	Audubon WatchList - Greater Prairie-Chicken
		Alteration of the various types of prairie habitat it inhabited is the primary reason for the decline of this species.
		Greater Prairie-Chicken once occupied large sections of U.S. and Canada where prairie habitat and mixed oak forests were prevalent.
		Greater Prairie-Chicken populations are still considered healthy enough to be hunted in 4 states, though populations have declined over a large portion of its historic range.
	audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=91 (849 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family.
		Greater Prairie Chickens prefer undisturbed prairie and were originally found in tall-grass prairies.
		The prairie chicken was almost extinct in the 1930’s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greater_Prairie_Chicken (614 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Greater Prairie-chicken
		The greater prairie chicken was the first grouse mentioned in the journals, near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
		Observation blinds are available for the public to watch the courtship ritual of the greater prairie chicken on their booming grounds in the area.
		Native species include the greater prairie chicken, deer, coyote, fox, eastern cottontail rabbit and the endangered prairie mole cricket.
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Greater_Prairie-chicken.htm (655 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Greater Prairie Chicken is sixteen to eighteen inches long and weighs two to three pounds.
		A Prairie Chicken does not migrate but lives through snowy winters by roosting in tall grass, even under deep snow, out of the wind.
		The Prairie Chicken is an endangered species in Illinois because of loss of habitat.
	museum.state.il.us /muslink/prairie/htmls/popups/birds_pchicken.html (297 words)

	The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota - Glacial Ridge Project
		A male Greater prairie chicken "booming" on the prairie.
		Birds like the sandhill crane, sharp tailed grouse, upland sandpiper, northern harrier, marbled godwit, Wilson's phalarope, greater prairie chicken, sora rail, marsh wren, and clay colored sparrow may soon find their habitat expanded at Glacial Ridge.
		In 2007, a nesting pair of burrowing owls and their two owlets were sighted on a restored prairie.
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/minnesota/preserves/art6943.html (666 words)

	Greater Prairie-Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Greater prairie-chicken losses can be primarily attributed to conversion of the tallgrass prairie into cultivated fields and developed areas.
		Fort Riley is one of the largest federally owned land tracts remaining of the tallgrass prairie in the country and likely holds the highest numbers of prairie-chicken in the area.
		The greater prairie- chicken will likely be able to maintain strongholds in certain parts of the state into the near future.
	www.riley.army.mil /view/article.asp?id=301-2002-12-18-55467-55 (586 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken Hunting Applications Available (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Permit applications for greater prairie chicken hunting are now available at Division of Wildlife Service Centers statewide, on the Internet at wildlife.state.co.us/hunt/gpc.pdf or via phone at (303) 297-1192.
		Between 1973 and 1993, Colorado’s greater prairie chickens were listed by the state as an endangered species.
		Through Division of Wildlife recovery efforts, which included cooperative habitat projects with eastern Colorado landowners, greater prairie chicken numbers have grown from a low of 600 birds in 1973 to an estimated fall population of 10,000 to 15,000 birds, which can easily sustain a limited harvest.
	www.dnr.state.co.us /cdnr_news/wildlife/2001529131428.html (320 words)

	Greater Prairie-Chicken Range Map
		The Greater Prairie-Chicken is a year-round resident locally from eastern North Dakota, northwestern and central Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and northern Michigan south to northeastern Colorado, Kansas, southern and northeastern Oklahoma, central Missouri, and southern Illinois; also in southeastern Texas.
		The Greater Prairie-Chicken inhabits stands of natural tall or midgrass prairie, especially where natural grasslands are interspersed with moderate amounts of small-grain cropland.
		Males favor slightly elevated open areas of short grassland for display grounds, which are approximately 1 acre in size and surrounded by dense grasses with some brush cover.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /greater_prairie_chicken_map.htm (121 words)

	Chicken Dance Trail - Nebraska Birdwatching Adventures & Trails
		The Greater Priairie Chicken is a type of grouse, common to open grassland such as we have here.
		Greater Prairie Chickens can been seen in Nebraska along the Loess Canyons Loop.
		Rivers, rains and winds dissected and eroded the high tablelands south of the Platte River in central Nebraska to carve the rugged, scenic Loess Canyons.
	www.chickendancetrail.com (639 words)

	In The Field
		The chickens paired into twos and preformed this amazing display, and occasionally went after one another by brief running charges and by hopping into the air with the aid of their wings and kicking one another.
		The prairie was also an obvious place to farm by removing a bouquet of native grasses and replacing them with rows of grasses dear to human stomachs—our domesticated grains.
		It is a great convenience to prairie chicken researchers and enthusiasts that they are a lekking species, for it means that they reliably show up at the same spot day after day to preform their competitive mating displays.
	blogs.nature.com /news/blog (2372 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken Hunting Applications Available (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Permit applications for Colorado’s first greater prairie chicken hunt since 1937 are now available at Division of Wildlife Service Centers statewide or by calling (303) 297-1192.
		All hunting for greater prairie chickens will be on private land in Yuma County north of U.S. Highway 36.
		Through Division of Wildlife recovery efforts, which included cooperative habitat projects with eastern Colorado landowners, greater prairie chicken numbers have grown from a low of 600 birds in 1973 to an estimated fall population of 10,000 to 12,000 birds, which can easily sustain a limited harvest.
	www.dnr.state.co.us /cdnr_news/wildlife/20006113936.html (304 words)

	The Greater Prairie Chicken: a Case History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In collaboration with individuals from the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the University of Illinois, we recently completed a 35-year study of a remnant population of the greater prairie chicken located in south-eastern Illinois.
		Thus, sufficient genetic resources appear to be critical for maintaining populations of greater prairie chickens.
		Analysis of DNA from museum specimens of the greater prairie chicken collected from the same Illinois population in the 1930's and 1960's revealed loss of specific alleles (known to have been present earlier in this century) following the demographic contraction.
	www.life.uiuc.edu /paige/pchick.html (280 words)

	Greater Prairie Chicken - South Dakota (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 much reduced in range and in numbers due to the loss of native tall-grass prairies.
		They can tolerate a small amount of agricultural land interspersed with prairie, but generally become less and less numerous as the percentage of agricultural land increases.
	huskertsd.tripod.com /species/greater_prairie_chicken.htm (245 words)

	Lesson Plans - Prairie-Chicken Pageant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Emphasize that it is actually NOT a chicken but a species of grouse (and a relative of the chicken's predomesticated ancestors), and a highly endangered prairie bird.
		The Attwater's prairie-chicken is a subspecies of Tympanuchus cupido, the greater prairie-chicken, that once ranged across six million acres of Louisiana and Texas coastal grasslands and numbered a million strong.
		Native coastal prairie is essential to the survival of the Attwater's prairie-chicken.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/16/g35/prairie35.html (1538 words)

	MAGBA Greater Prairie Chicken Hunting in Kansas
		We are fortunate in Kansas to have a good population of greater prairie chickens.
		This bird offers even greater variety beyond the more common quail and pheasant hunting, to offer a unique challenge to the upland bird hunter.
		The Prairie Chicken has a tremendous scent cone, apparently more intense than quail, allowing dogs to work them on longer tracking and stand off than quail coveys.
	www.magba.com /Prairie_chicken.htm (126 words)

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