GLYNDON, Minn. -- The show begins while sunrise is still just a reddish-orange rumor in the eastern sky. You hear it before you can see much of anything. Rapid wing beats ("Is that one over there? I ...

CLAY COUNTY, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has placed a livestreaming camera at The Nature Conservancy’s Bluestem Prairie Preserve in Clay County to showcase the sights and ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Nature Conservancy have set up a livestream video of the greater prairie chickens on the lek at Bluestem Prairie near Glyndon. A male prairie ...

It's all about listening, and lots of practice has allowed Dave Trauba to discern the sounds of prairie chickens from the many other bird songs of the spring mating season. The research requires that ...

It started at dawn with a deep, rhythmic humming from the open expanse of Buena Vista Grasslands Wildlife Area near Bancroft. "Whhooo-doo-dooommhh." The sound grew louder as the minutes passed. It ...

WATSON -- Some of Minnesota's most celebrated wildlife restoration stories have been scripted in recent years with the return of trumpeter swans, osprey and peregrine falcons to parts of the state. A ...

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 ...

at The Nature Conservancy's Bluestem Prairie Preserve in Clay County to showcase the sights and sounds of greater prairie chickens' annual mating behavior, known as booming. and click on the link ...