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Prairie Chickens

Heath Hen, Tympanuchus cupido cupido, woodcut. Males displaying in foreground, female in background, 1912

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prairie chicken
NOUN:		1 a : a grouse (Tympanuchus cupido) chiefly of the tallgrass prairies of the central United States with the male having yellowish-orange neck sacs which are inflated during courtship displays; also : a closely related smaller grouse (T. pallidicinctus) having reddish neck sacs
ETYMOLOGY:		First Known Use 1691
"chicken." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010. Merriam-Webster Online. 18 August 2011 <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chicken>

Prairie Chicken

Prairie Chicken refers to several birds in the genus Tympanuchus:

Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

Attwater's Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)

Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido)

Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus

Lesser Prairie Chicken

Categories: Tetraonidae | IUCN Red List vulnerable species | Tympanuchus | Birds of the United States | Endemic birds of the Plains-Midwest (United States) | Grouse

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Greater Prairie Chicken

Male Greater Prairie Chicken displaying in Illinois, USA.

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum::	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Subfamily:	Tetraoninae
Genus:	Tympanuchus
Species:	T. cupido
Subspecies:	Tympanuchus cupido attwateri Tympanuchus cupido cupido† Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus

Binomial name

Tympanuchus cupido
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Wikipedia

Beahrs, Andrew. Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens, NY: Penguin, 2010.
Hammerstrom, Frances. Strictly for the Chickens. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980.
USDA Economic Research Service
- Animal Products
  - Poultry & Eggs
Westermeier, Ronald L. "The History of Prairie-Chickens and Their Management in Illinois," In Selected Papers in Illinois History, 1983. Robert McCluggage, Ed. Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1985, 17-27.

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Distribution map of the Greater Prairie-Chicken. Pale and dark green: pre-settlement
Dark green: current year-round

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