The Attwater’s prairie chicken, a living symbol of Texas and one of the most endangered species in the world, has achieved a population level not seen in 28 years. An annual survey by the U.S. Fish ...

Bianca Sicich isn’t ready to let go of the prairie just yet. It’s the last Friday of February, the first green shoots of spring emerging from the overwintering tall grass, and she’s up early to ...

“Welcome to Eagle Lake, Goose Hunting Capital of the World,” a sun-bleached sign reads as I pull onto Highway 3013. On this April morning, I’ve come for a different kind of avian sport: a bird count ...

The call of a male Attwater's prairie chicken during mating season can sound like a mix of a foghorn and a cat howling, but it's music to the ears of Kirk Feuerbacher. Feuerbacher, working land ...

TEXAS CITY - Brandon Crawford stopped his white SUV in the middle of a waterlogged, mosquito-filled prairie, and pointed what looked like a 1970s television antenna toward the horizon. A steady "ping, ...

A bird native to the Houston area will be in the spotlight this fall as part of a relaunch of a long running wildlife TV show. ENDANGERED SPECIES: Attwater’s prairie chicken numbers ‘booming’ at ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Attwater Prairie Chicken is a critically endangered animal, and The Houston Zoo is helping the birds make a comeback. A century ago, there were about one million ...

HOUSTON - Trudging through the tall grass still wet from 4 inches of weekend rain one day last month, Terry Rossignol and Rebekah Smith push toward a pen holding four Attwater's prairie chickens ready ...

Once there were about a million of them, but now fewer than 50 are left in the wild. Before long, some of the endangered Attwater’s Prairie Chickens in the Houston Zoo’s breeding program will move to ...