Lesser Prairie Chicken

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iLesser Prairie Chicken
Lesser Prairie Chicken - USFWS photo
Lesser Prairie Chicken - USFWS photo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Tetraonidae
Genus: Tympanuchus
Species: T. pallidicinctus
Binomial name
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
(Ridgway, 1873)

The Lesser Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, is slightly smaller and paler than its near relative the Greater Prairie Chicken. It is found primarily in the sandhills and prairies of Western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, and the Llano Estacado of Texas and Eastern New Mexico, and also rarely in Southeastern Colorado and Western Kansas.

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