Cattle producers and landowners are celebrating after the lesser prairie-chicken was removed from the endangered species list, ending years of regulations put on agriculture.

"Instead, lesser prairie-chickens became officially delisted due to multiple court cases filed by industrial oil, big ...

There used to be millions of lesser prairie chickens, but now there are only about 30,000 in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

“I mean, you're riding a horse across here and ever since I was a little kid, they fly off like a pheasant … it's pretty cool to see them.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates millions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser prairie chicken makes its home in Eastern New Mexico (Larry Lamsa via KUNM) Last week, a Texas judge decided to vacate ...

The stocky, dancing bird that populates prairies across five states lost its federal protections — not because its habitat or ...

The Lesser Prairie Chicken is no longer considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

A federally and state listed threatened species, the lesser-prairie chicken is found in small fragmented populations in the grasslands of southeast Colorado. Unfortunately, populations of this ...

A U.S. District judge on Aug. 12 ruled in favor of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, finding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service committed a “foundational error” when it declared the prairie-chicken ...

A Midwestern bird known for its unique appearance and impressive courtship dances is officially off the federal threatened ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...