Lesser prairie chicken

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With the fish and wildlife declassification of the lesser chicken from endangered. Was wondering if you guys that hunt SW Do you ever see very many? I hunt a lot on the eastern edge of there range and limited in the heart of their range. And I have never seen a single one.
 
There is a flock of chickens that I’ve seen 2 or 3 times kind of wondered if they were lessers but I wouldn’t know the difference. The places are no longer in walk-in so I’ll never know unless they turn up somewhere else.
 
BrownDogsCan2 said:
There is a flock of chickens that I’ve seen 2 or 3 times kind of wondered if they were lessers but I wouldn’t know the difference. The places are no longer in walk-in so I’ll never know unless they turn up somewhere else.
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There is a flock of chickens, maybe 150 or so, where I hunt but not for sure if they are Lessers.
 
Saw some in Mitchell County in January. Maybe 40-50. I'm assuming Lessers. Was cool to see. Pretty nice flock. I've not seen too many in my lifetime.
 
Mitchell county would definitely be greater PC.

I saw one on opening weekend of pheasant season maybe 15-20 years ago in Gray county. It flushed right in front of me, in range, when there was still an open season in KS. My brain said "hen," so I didn't shoot. Even if I had properly ID'd it, I doubt I would have shot.

A landowner further east and a bit north of there said he had a small flock, and I may have seen one once. It was one of our few snow days in Kansas, and a plum thicket on a pivot corner very close to that landowner was holding pheasants, quail and one bird that very much looked like a PC. I didn't get a good enough look to confirm whether it was a lesser, but it definitely didn't look like a pheasant or quail. This was only maybe 2 years ago.
 
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