Aerial surveys reveal 'stable' population trend for lesser prairie chicken

Aerial surveys reveal 'stable' population trend for lesser prairie chicken
The latest aerial surveys point to stability in the breeding population of lesser prairie chickens at a time when numbers of the expressive birds concentrated in parts of five U.S. states expanded most notably in northwest Kansas’ short-grass prairie region.

The sixth year of annual assessments by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies estimated the breeding population in Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico climbed to 33,200 birds this year. That compares to counts of 25,200 in 2016, 29,100 in 2015 and 23,300 in 2014. Read more here.

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