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prairie chicken

NOUN
  1. brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies

How To Use prairie chicken In A Sentence

  • The Indian took the egg and put it in the nest of a prairie chicken.
  • Osage Plains prairie fragments, an important site for the prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), the richest and largest fragments of tallgrass prairie in this ecoregion - Missouri Central forest-grasslands transition
  • The birds we had seen hitherto consisted chiefly of prairie chicken, lark, snipe, and a small kind of starling that was continuously swarming around us, and was so tame that it would at times sit on our pack animals while on the march. A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
  • Great Regulars: In Harrison County, Mo., a remnant of grassland supports a population of greater prairie chickens Tympanuchus cupido, a bird on the verge of extinction. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Laws have been made for the protection of the pinnated grouse, or prairie chicken, and others of their tribe. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
  • He was one of the first to film courtship behavior of Sandhill Cranes, Spruce Grouse, and Greater-Prairie Chickens.
  • Time for first sightings of the pasqueflower (the crocus) and the erotic dance of the prairie chicken. Undefined
  • Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) are common on the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve. Flint Hills tall grasslands
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