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 | |
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| A lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Phasianidae |
| Genus: | Tympanuchus |
| Species: | T. pallidicinctus |
| Binomial name | |
| Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (Ridgway, 1873) | |
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| Lesser prairie chicken range.[2][3] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tympanuchus cupido pallidicinctus | |
About half of this species live in western Kansas. They are also found in Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas.
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Tympanuchus pallidicinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- 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.
- 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]
Other websites
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tympanuchus pallidicinctus.
- BirdLife Species Factsheet Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Lesser Prairie-Chicken videos on the Internet Bird Collection
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