Attwater's prairie-chicken

Attwater's prairie-chicken

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Tympanuchus
Species:
Subspecies:
T. c. attwateri
Trinomial name
Tympanuchus cupido attwateri
Bendire, 1893

Attwater's prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) is a highly endangered subspecies of the greater prairie-chicken that is native to coastal Texas and formerly Louisiana in the United States.

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