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)
“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)