Lesser prairie chicken

The lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a bird in the grouse family. It is similar to the greater prairie chicken but is slightly smaller and paler in color.

Lesser prairie chicken
Lesser Prairie Chicken, New Mexico.jpg
A lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico
Conservation status
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Tympanuchus
Species:
T. pallidicinctus
Binomial name
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
(Ridgway, 1873)
map of lesser prairie chicken distribution in south central United States
Lesser prairie chicken range.[2][3]
Synonyms

Tympanuchus cupido pallidicinctus

About half of this species live in western Kansas. They are also found in Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.

References

  1. "Tympanuchus pallidicinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. BirdLife International and NatureServe (2014) Bird Species Distribution Maps of the World. 2012. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus. In: IUCN 2015. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. http://www.iucnredlist.org Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 09 July 2015.
  3. National Geophysical Data Center, 1999. Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation (GLOBE) v.1. Hastings, D. and P.K. Dunbar. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V52R3PMS [access date: 2015-03-16]

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