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A photo of a Lesser Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), male
Lesser Prairie Chicken, Male

Lesser Prairie Chicken

Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

The lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a species in the grouse family. It is a medium to large bird, striped white and brown, slightly smaller and paler than its near relative the greater prairie chicken (T. cupido). Adults range from 15.0 to 16.1 in (38-41 cm) in length. About half of its current population lives in western Kansas, with the other half in the sandhills and prairies of western Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle including the Llano Estacado, eastern New Mexico, and south-eastern Colorado.
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