Seirer_170411_1867.jpgDancing Prairie Chicken A male Greater Prairie Chicken dances at a communal breeding ground, called lek, in central Kansas. The prairie chicken is a ground-nesting grouse at home in both shortgrass and tallgrass prairie. Its greatest risk as a species is loss of habitat. This lek is on privately owned property near Cheyenne Bottoms. The Kansas Wetlands Education Center at Cheyenne Bottoms has arranged with the landowner to set up a viewing blind at the lek. Each spring, during the mating season, the center ushers small groups to the blind, where they can view the extraordinary prairie chicken mating ritual that begins at first light.

A male Greater Prairie Chicken dances at a communal breeding ground, called lek, in central Kansas. The prairie chicken is a ground-nesting grouse at home in both shortgrass and tallgrass prairie. Its greatest risk as a species is loss of habitat. This lek is on privately owned property near Cheyenne Bottoms. The Kansas Wetlands Education Center at Cheyenne Bottoms has arranged with the landowner to set up a viewing blind at the lek. Each spring, during the mating season, the center ushers small groups to the blind, where they can view the extraordinary prairie chicken mating ritual that begins at first light.