Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered ...

TEXAS CITY - Brandon Crawford stopped his white SUV in the middle of a waterlogged, mosquito-filled prairie, and pointed what looked like a 1970s television antenna toward the horizon. A steady "ping, ...

Mack Kizer remembers hunting lesser prairie chickens as a boy at his family’s ranch in Pep, New Mexico about half an hour south of Portales. He said his mother had a knack for preparing the native ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Topeka — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has ...

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 ...

Two male prairie chickens spar over territory on a lek located on the Bluestem Prairie near Glyndon, Minn., on Tuesday. The birds come to this spot each spring for their annual mating ritual.

WASHINGTON — Congress has approved two measures to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken and northern long-eared bat — two endangered animals that have seen their populations plummet ...

I am not a stranger to getting up at O’ dark thirty to be able to get out and capture some images of wildlife. Over the past 40 years I would say it is definitely in the hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

A rare bird threatened by oil and gas development in the southeast New Mexico Permian Basin region was listed for the strongest federal protections available Thursday, according to an announcement ...