How to Use prairie chicken in a Sentence

prairie chicken

noun
  • The female prairie chickens, watching from afar, will choose who has the best call and smartest dance.
    Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The closest living relative of the heath hen, which went extinct in the 1930s, is the greater prairie chicken.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • There is a market solution for the lesser prairie chicken, yet the state agencies quashed it.
    WSJ, 5 July 2021
  • Dunn has also come out against such actions as the addition of the dunes sagebrush lizard and the prairie chicken to the endangered species list.
    Christopher Helman, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • To read the prairie chicken management plan, visit dnr.wi.gov.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • In southeast Colorado, leases have been proposed in some of the spots where lesser prairie chickens live.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The prairie chicken's challenges are part of a troubling trend for grassland-reliant species overall.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • The groups sued the federal government in June to force it to make a designation for the lesser prairie chicken and its habitats.
    USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But Congress voted this year to undo protections for a rare grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken as well as the northern long-eared bat.
    John Flesher, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The chicken dance replicates the strut of a prairie chicken, while the grass dance, whose outfits are distinguished by their long fringe that sways as the dancer moves, is meant to imitate the stomping of grass.
    New York Times, 30 July 2022
  • Leases are proposed in a part of southeastern Colorado where lesser prairie chickens live.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
  • Earlier this month, the Senate voted to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a rare grouse found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest.
    John Flesher, ajc, 11 May 2023
  • Over the past twenty years, both greater prairie chicken and sharp-tailed grouse populations have primarily remained stable or have grown.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • But with a couple of Democratic defections, the Senate voted narrowly this spring to undo protections for a rare grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken as well as the northern long-eared bat.
    John Flesher, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus is the Latin name for prairie chicken.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The public is encouraged to submit comments regarding the draft prairie chicken management plan no later than Feb. 18.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2022
  • Great prairie chicken populations grew for the first time in decades (though more recent studies question the role of genetic rescue in this success), along with the Swedish adder, a venomous snake that had suffered from inbreeding.
    Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 27 Apr. 2017
  • State wildlife biologists in April caught lesser prairie chickens in Kansas and released them in southeast Colorado as part of a multi-year program to rebuild the bird’s population.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
  • For the upcoming sale, Colorado Parks and Wildlife recommended deferring action on some of the leases proposed in lesser prairie chicken habitat, but none in greater sage grouse areas.
    Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2019
  • All this human encroachment into grasslands imperils these rich habitats that animals, from cheetahs to caribou to prairie chickens, call home.
    Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
  • Republicans say protections for the lesser prairie chicken interfere with U.S. oil and gas production and jeopardize thousands of American jobs.
    Matthew Daly, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In 2015 a federal judge blocked the Obama prairie chicken endangered listing because the Administration had not sufficiently considered alternatives to conserve bird habitat.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • Her administration resisted Biden administration efforts to preserve the lesser prairie chicken’s habitat, which raises concerns that agriculture and energy production will be restricted.
    John Hanna, ajc, 23 Dec. 2021

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