The Greater Prairie-Chicken is an iconic grassland grouse whose booming leks — communal display grounds where males inflate orange neck sacs and call — are one of the most extraordinary wildlife spectacles of the Great Plains. Its population has declined catastrophically with the conversion of native prairie, and it is extirpated from much of its historical range. The 'Attwater's' subspecies is critically endangered.
Habitat
Native tallgrass and mixed-grass prairie
Diet
Seeds, waste grain, insects, and plant material
How common
Rare
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