Information about Prairie Chicken

Prairie Chicken refers to several birds in the genus Tympanuchus:
Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Tympanuchus
Gloger, 1841

Species

Tympanuchus phasianellus
Tympanuchus cupido
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Tympanuchus is a small genus of birds in the grouse family.
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T. cupido

Binomial name
Tympanuchus cupido
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Subspecies

Tympanuchus cupido attwateri
Tympanuchus cupido cupido
Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus
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T. c. attwateri

Trinomial name
Tympanuchus cupido attwateri

Attwater's Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) is a highly endangered subspecies of prairie chicken related to the now extinct heath hen.
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T. c. cupido

Trinomial name
Tympanuchus cupido cupido
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido) was a distinctive subspecies of the Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido
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T. cupido

Binomial name
Tympanuchus cupido
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Subspecies

Tympanuchus cupido attwateri
Tympanuchus cupido cupido
Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus
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T. pallidicinctus

Binomial name
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
(Ridgway, 1873)

The Lesser Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
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