WATSON -- Some of Minnesota's most celebrated wildlife restoration stories have been scripted in recent years with the return of trumpeter swans, osprey and peregrine falcons to parts of the state. A ...

GLYNDON, Minn. -- The show begins while sunrise is still just a reddish-orange rumor in the eastern sky. You hear it before you can see much of anything. Rapid wing beats ("Is that one over there? I ...

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 ...

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists have ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Nov. 17 that it was listing the lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act. Following a review of the best available scientific and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government announced protections Thursday for two populations of a rare prairie bird that’s found in parts of the Midwest, including one of the country’s most ...

Mail wing and tail feathers (one envelope per bird), along with info on the county of harvest, to Grouse Research A hybrid prairie grouse, showing both the pinnae feathers of a male prairie chicken ...