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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

10,000 Birds

His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US. In Abraham Lincoln’s day, Prairie Chickens were an incredibly abundant part of the Illinois prairie landscape. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive. This species is in trouble.

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