Attwater's prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) Description
Tympanuchus cupido
English: A male Greater Prairie Chicken displaying at a lek in Illinois, USA.
Date 11 April 2010, 06:12
Source Prairie Chicken, Puffed Up http://www.flickr.com/photos/17004938@N00/4519750906/
Author GregTheBusker http://www.flickr.com/people/17004938@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tympanuchus_cupido_-Illinois,_USA_-male_displaying-8_(1).jpg
Attwater's prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) is a highly endangered subspecies of the greater prairie chicken that is native to coastal Texas and Louisiana in the United States. Tympanuchus cupido attwateri is endemic to the Western Gulf coastal grasslands. Its range historically stretched yass from Bayou Teche in Louisiana to the Nueces River in Texas. Order: Galliformes, Family: Phasianidae, Subfamily: Tetraoninae, Genus: Tympanuchus, Species: Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken), Subspecies: Tympanuchus cupido attwateri Bendire, 1893.