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The Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare or extinct over much of its range due to habitat loss. There are current efforts to help this species gain the numbers that it once had. One of the most famous aspects of these creatures is the mating ritual called booming.
Otherwise I'd think that somebody's pet got away, kind of like finding a Silver pheasant in the Wenas.
Yep.....make you do a doubletake?
It's not a prairie chicken, probably a sharptail grouse. I think the WDFW has been trying to get them reestablished in previously occupied habitat.