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:
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
“Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes
Have lost the light that bites or terrifies.
There are no swans and swallows any more.
The people settled for chicken and shut the door.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)