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Lesser Prairie Chicken Range Map. Greater PrairieChicken Montana Field Guide PRODUCTION AREA: An area which includes all nesting and brood rearing habitat of the lesser prairie chicken Learn even more in our Audubon's Survival By Degrees project.

Like its close relative, the larger, darker Greater. It is estimated that lesser prairie-chicken habitat has diminished across its historical range by about 90 percent

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The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is a pale grouse of the southern Great Plains, found only in prairie and agricultural land with shinnery oak and sand sagebrush It is estimated that lesser prairie-chicken habitat has diminished across its historical range by about 90 percent Currently defined as a 2.4km buffer zone around each active lek.

Prairie Grouse — The North American Grouse Partnership. Historic (Thacker and Twidwell 2014) and estimated range of lesser prairie-chicken (LEPC;KARS SGPCHAT 2017) Lesser prairie-chickens need large tracts of relatively intact native grasslands and prairies to thrive, and are considered a "boom-bust" species with annual reproductive success tied to precipitation patterns.

Distinguishing Between Greater and Lesser PrairieChicken Oklahoma State University. Once widespread and abundant, its numbers have crashed following heavy hunting in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then conversion of its natural habitat to cropland and rangeland Currently defined as a 2.4km buffer zone around each active lek.