It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is running late. Gillespie, a wildlife biologist at Prairie Ridge State Natural Area near Newton, opens a gate with a do ...

The Booming-N-Blooming Festival at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Sealy reminds me of an April morning in 1983. I sat quietly on the dew-laden ground behind a wooden blind ...

WRAY — The signs of spring start are starting to appear and the area is beginning to burst with activity. The last two weeks of March and most of April will have the area coming to life with the ...

Perhaps the most iconic bird of the Lone Star State is back on stage for this weekend's 22nd annual Attwater's Prairie Chicken Festival at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. "The ...

A profile of Wisconsin's Greater Prairie Chicken population and the problems they face. They're small, feisty, and every April they lay down a sound on Wisconsin's landscape unlike any other. The ...

For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at sunrise to watch the unique courtship dance of the prairie chicken, whose population in Iowa has been ...

A bird with ballooning cheeks and a mesmerizing mating dance will be the focus of the first Nebraska Prairie Chicken Festival near Burwell. Calamus Outfitters and three local ranch families that make ...

A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...