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The lesser prairie chicken was granted endangered species status in 2023. Now the Department of the Interior is moving to revoke those protections. What can this bird known for its flamboyant ...

Later, the bird bounced on and then off the list of threatened and endangered species, caught up in lawsuits. In 2022, under President Biden, lesser prairie chickens were again protected.

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This list includes northern pintails, king eiders, black scoters, and long-tailed ducks. Of those, 42 were labeled “Red Alert” species with steep declining trends, and this list includes several ...

“Bird populations are continuing to decline, and one third of species in the U.S. require urgent conservation attention,” says report co-author Amanda Rodewald, an ecologist at Cornell University.