Greater Prairie-Chicken
The Greater Prairie Chicken, Tymphanucus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family. It is a North American species.
Adults of both sexes are 14 inches (350 mm), medium sized, stocky, and round winged. Their tail is short, round, and dark. Adult males have yellow-orange comb over their eyes. Males also have dark, elongated head feathers can be raised or lain along neck and a circular, orange unfeathered neck patch can be inflated when displaying. Adult females
have shorter head feathers and lack yellow comb and orange neck patch.
Greater prairie chickens do not migrate. Hens lay between 5-17 eggs per clutch and the eggs take 23-24 days to hatch. Their diet is primarily seeds and fruit but they also eat insects and green plants.
Subspecies
It has a distinctive subspecies called the Heath Hen, Tymphanucus cupido cupido.
References
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3050id.html
