To showcase prairie chicken mating behavior, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has set up a livestream video from Bluestem Prairie Preserve, near Glyndon, Minnesota. To showcase the sights ...

Venus and a crescent moon dominate the pre-dawn sky, but already the prairie is alive with the mating songs of birds. Dave Trauba, manager of the Lac qui Parle refuge, makes early morning runs to ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Nature Conservancy have set up a livestream video of the greater prairie chickens on the lek at Bluestem Prairie near Glyndon. A male prairie ...

Two prairie chickens face off at sunrise at the Kellerton Wildlife Management Area. Prairie chickens, a native species to parts of the Midwest and the Great Plains, were extirpated from the state ...

The call of a male Attwater's prairie chicken during mating season can sound like a mix of a foghorn and a cat howling, but it's music to the ears of Kirk Feuerbacher. Feuerbacher, working land ...

It's all about listening, and lots of practice has allowed Dave Trauba to discern the sounds of prairie chickens from the many other bird songs of the spring mating season. The research requires that ...

What I remember most about that dark early morning of crouching on the prairie is the rhythmic sound of pounding. It was so loud I wondered if someone had put a microphone near the skinny legs of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe ...

Prairie chickens and the grasslands they need to survive were kind of overlooked, one might say, back in 1973, when two young biologists working in Crookston decided to see if they could draw some ...