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
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