Difference between Prairie Chicken and Prairie Grouse

PRAIRIE CHICKEN vs PRAIRIE GROUSE: NOUN

Either of two species of flightless bird of the genus Tympanuchus, native to the prairies of North America, the greater and lesser prairie chickens
Same as prairie-hen.
Either of two grouse (Tympanuchus cupido or T. pallidicinctus) found in western North America and having deep-chested bodies and mottled brownish plumage.
Brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies

Bird, Plover, Wood stork, Mule deer, Tundra swan, Waterfowl, Quail, Bald eagle, Pheasant, Sage grouse, Trumpeter swan, Bobwhite, Sandhill crane, Prairie fowl, Prairie grouse

Bighorn sheep, Snowshoe hare, Bird, Plover, Wood stork, Mule deer, Tundra swan, Waterfowl, Quail, Bald eagle, Pheasant, Sage grouse, Trumpeter swan, Bobwhite, Sandhill crane

Permian Basin Petroleum Association and four New Mexico counties and vacated the final rule listing the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the ESA.
Gene Richardson, an associate director at the Texas Farm Bureau, an agricultural lobbying organization that has supported the warbler, lizard and prairie chicken plans.
Reexamination of the historic range of the greater prairie chicken using provenance data and DNA analysis of museum collections.
Energy developers, conservation groups, state agencies, and the owners of working lands are all coming together to try to enhance lesser prairie chicken habitat.
The population of another subspecies, Atwater's prairie chicken, has sunk to about 1,000 birds, most of them in Texas.
Animals that inhabit barrens include whitetail deer, grouse, prairie chicken, redheaded woodpecker and timber wolf.
Identifying landscapes for greater prairie chicken translocation using habitat models and GIS: a case study.
Bird hunting opportunities include prairie chicken, duck, turkey, Canada goose, and sandhill crane.
Boys competed in traditional, fancy, grass, and prairie chicken dances.
This is the prairie chicken of our western plains, the true prairie chicken not being observed here.

Future studies of wildlife impacts should use similar protocols to investigate interactionsbetween wind power and lekmating prairie grouse in other habitats.
Dynamic disturbance processes create dynamic lek site selection in a prairie grouse.
However, hail storms are known to cause mortality of prairie grouse, particularly during the spring nesting season.
Further research is needed to establish whether parasites limit prairie grouse populations.