Prairie Chicken

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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    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Filling her compact & delicious body
    with chicken paprika, she glanced at me
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