It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is running late. Gillespie, a wildlife biologist at Prairie Ridge State Natural Area near Newton, opens a gate with a do ...

McCOOK, Neb. (KOLN) - As Carol Schlegel drives south of McCook, Horned Larks dart past her headlights. But they’re not the birds she’s looking for. The real stars of the spring show are Greater ...

A profile of Wisconsin's Greater Prairie Chicken population and the problems they face. They're small, feisty, and every April they lay down a sound on Wisconsin's landscape unlike any other. The ...

For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at sunrise to watch the unique courtship dance of the prairie chicken, whose population in Iowa has been ...