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Transcript: Return of Prairie Chickens Hailed in Midwest
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- May 23, 2006
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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
05-23-2006
Return of Prairie Chickens Hailed in Midwest
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 21:00-22:00 PM
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
Heres a story about some chicks of a very different kind, an endangered species of grouse actually, the greater prairie chicken. Its mating season for the bird and over the last couple of weeks the prairie chickens mating dance has been taking place on the eastern edge of the tall grass prairie.
Laura Ziegler sent this audio postcard.
LAURA ZIEGLER reporting:
Its an act of deliberation to get to this place. By car it is a two-hour drive northeast of Kansas City and a half-mile trek in the damp pre-dawn chill through the tall and ...