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
Famous quotes containing the words prairie and/or chicken:
“To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn’t roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don’t want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain’t ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn’t want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)