Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Summary 2
The lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), a species in the grouse family, is slightly smaller and paler than its near relative the greater prairie chicken. 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 southeastern Colorado.
Fontes e Créditos
- (c) J. N. Stuart, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/21786539@N03/2414940783
- (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tympanuchus_pallidicinctus
