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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Phasianidae.

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  • Great Regulars: In Harrison County, Mo., a remnant of grassland supports a population of greater prairie chickens Tympanuchus cupido, a bird on the verge of extinction.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) are common on the Tallgrass Prairie Reserve.

    Flint Hills tall grasslands 2008

  • Osage Plains prairie fragments, an important site for the prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), the richest and largest fragments of tallgrass prairie in this ecoregion - Missouri

    Central forest-grasslands transition 2008

  • The greater prairie chicken, Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus, a dumpy-looking bird, has been known by many names: prairie chicken, pinnated grouse, boomer, prairie grouse, heath hen.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • By Bill Fenimore Special to The TribuneUpdated: 09/29/2009 04: 58: 32 PM MDT Sharp-tailed grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus Upland game hunters who drew a permit for sharp-tailed grouse are currently in

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Another species, the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) can be found in some of the western states.

    unknown title 2009

  • By Bill Fenimore Special to The TribuneUpdated: 09/29/2009 04: 58: 32 PM MDT Sharp-tailed grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus Upland game hunters who drew a permit for sharp-tailed grouse are currently in boats at anchor in middle of Mekong River, on outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital

    WN.com - Articles related to Tourism depends on more prisons 2009

  • It shall be unlawful to hunt, take or kill that species of pinnated grouse commonly called heath hen, and scientifically known as Tympanuchus cupido, or to buy, sell, otherwise dispose of, or have in possession the same or any part thereof, previous to the first day of November in the year nineteen hundred and eleven.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • In the more northern regions are several species of ptarmigan or snow partridges (_Lagopus_), which turn white in winter, and the spruce partridges (_Canachites_); in the more genial climate of the great plains of eastern Canada and in the Far West the ruffled grouse and hazel grouse (_Bonasa_), the sage cocks (_Centrocercus_), the prairie hens (_Tympanuchus_), and the blue or pine grouse

    Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • - [Mystery birds] Sharp-tailed Grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus, photographed at roughly 9am in the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

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