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
A lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Galliformes
Family:	Phasianidae
Genus:	Tympanuchus
Species:	T. pallidicinctus
Binomial name
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (Ridgway, 1873)
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.