The Lesser Prairie Chicken on the rebound

With a chest-puffing mating dance and a call similar to Woody the Woodpecker’s laugh, you’d think the Lesser Prairie Chicken would be the kind of bird to be right at home most anywhere.

Yet their habitat occupies a unique region. So special in fact, the bird was featured in an episode of the revised TV series Dallas titled Playing Chicken, which aired on March 10, 2014. Bobby Ewing reminds John Ross Ewing that drilling for oil on Southfork would threaten the bird’s natural habitat.

The Lesser Prairie Chicken on the rebound